I'm so excited we get to tour a garden by one of my favorite designers -
Bernard Trainor. This garden, featured in an issue of
Pacific Horticulture (an excellent garden journal - if you've not heard of Pacific Hort, please check it out) was designed to embrace the California ideal of indoor-outdoor living.
Bernard Trainor excels at creating a fluidity between interior and exterior spaces. The arbor, walls and paving in the garden create the architectural bones and provide an excellent stage for the plantings.
The plantings were selected from several mediterranean climates and adapt well to our dry California summers.
If you would like to read more about how this wonderful garden came to be, please check out this Pac Hort article, written by the garden owner, Andrea Testa-Vought -
The Secret is Finding the Right Garden Designer. Photo credits: Andrea Testa-Vought.
And again, don't forget you can register for the San Francisco Garden Blogger's Fling
here and get to see this gorgeous garden in person!
