Bringing the Garden Inside
From within the Dane's cubist home, this Zen-like garden and the ocean take command of a flawlessly simple, warm interior space. Mark Weaver and Associates, an interior design and project management firm, worked closely with FormLA Landscaping design and build teams to ensure the garden became an effective interior design element.
Ready to Go Coastal Garden
This ready-to-go sustainable landscape design answered the City of Santa Monica’s challenge to design a coast-appropriate sustainable garden. The City asked that the designs be easy to recreate, neighborhood appropriate, and ultimately sustainable. If you live in Santa Monica, or one of Los Angeles' walkable beach communities, this design may work for you.
Tour Our 2010 Showcase Garden
Missed your chance to stroll the sustainable, formal French knot garden FormLA designed for the 2010 Pasadena Showcase House of Design at the historic Craven Mansion? Take the online tour.
La Cañada’s Gardens of the World Demonstration Garden
La Cañada Valley Beautiful and FormLA Landscaping worked in partnership to create demonstration garden illustrating the five California-compatible climate regions of the world: California, naturally, the Mediterranean, South Africa, Chile and Australia.
Preview Three TPF Tour Gardens
FormLA Landscaping has three lovely homes on the Theodore Payne Foundation's 50th Anniversary Native Garden Tour: The Ownby home in La Crescenta, the Rosen home in Brentwood, and the Veloz home in Glendale. Water-wise native plants and sustainable landscaping techniques make these lush and lovely landscapes cleaner, safer and healthier for the kids, pets, and guests who enjoy them.
Mandeville Park Improves Safety and Quality of Life
For decades, the Mandeville Canyon welcome billboard greeted visitors with ivy and other invasive plants. As part of its mission to improve the safety and quality of life of residents, The Mandeville Canyon Association unified the community's homeowners in creating a lush and inviting park space that provides residents and guests with a safe off-street walkway along the steep and winding street.
The Markota Residential Landscape Renovation
Michele Markota loved her 1928 Tudor home in Eagle Rock but grew bored with the outdated and less than functional landscape and kitchen. Deciding what to tackle first was difficult, but she opted to start with the backyard.
The Kingsbury's Soulful Retreat
The Kingsbury's spent years renovating their home in Pasadena, bordering San Marino. After fully renovating "the worst house in the best neighborhood," they turned to FormLA Landscaping to design, build and maintain the setting for their jewel of a home.