Western garden design awards
Winners offer inspiration for planting, paving, and problem-solving
As the winners in Sunset’s contest prove, a garden with a great design presents plants beautifully, extends a home into the outdoors and expresses its owner’s taste and personality. Our judges selected the best gardens from several hundred entries submitted by landscape architects and designers across the West. Each garden is ripe with ideas you can use:
OUTDOOR LIVING
A park of one’s own, Beverly Hills
Winding ways, Santa Monica Canyon, CA
House within a garden, Santa Monica
SMALL SPACE
Beautifully crafted, San Francisco
Less is more, Walnut Creek, CA
RENOVATION
Simply elegant, Danville, CA
REGIONAL
Open to change, Lafayette, CA
Living on the edge, Tucson
Gentle touch, Glen Ellen, CA
DETAILS
Steeled to perfection, Yountville, CA
A path worth reading, Tiburon, CA
OTHER WINNERS (photos not available)
Steve Martino & Associates, Phoenix
Bliss Design, Soquel, CA
Nobel Design Studio, Carbondale, CO
GLS Architecture/Landscape Architecture, San Francisco
THIS YEAR’S JURY
(from left to right)
Christine Ten Eyck, ASLA
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Phoenix
Scott Woodcock, ASLA
The Berger Partnership, Seattle
Lauren Bonar Swezey
Director, Western Garden
Design Awards Program, Sunset
Bernard Trainor, APLD, MSGD
Bernard Trainor Design Associates,
Royal Oaks, CA
Pamela Burton, ASLA
Pamela Burton & Company, Santa Monica
Kathleen N. Brenzel
Senior Garden Editor, Sunset
