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Landscape Designer, Lew Whitney has over 30 years
experience turning ordinary Southern California Gardens
into extraordinary works of art. By using a colorful
mixture of bulbs, perennials and flowering shrubs, Lew's
cottage designs create a nostalgic look with more
structure and year-round appeal than a traditional
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Inspiration
Color will
always be an important element in landscape design. Good
landscapes weave a tapestry of complimentary colors.
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Composition
In some ways
landscapes are like a series of well composed pictures with
frames and focal points.
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Roses
Roses add a
romantic element. Nothing will dress a barren wall like a
climbing rose. Dogs are nice but optional.
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Mediterranean Cottage
Garden
Many new coastal
communities feature highly stylized Mediterranean architecture.
Gardens to compliment that style of architecture can be equally
stylized to bring old world feelings to new world homes.
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Transformation
Remodels of
older home open the door to remodels of gardens.
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Flowers
Nothing brings
life to a garden and joy to our lives like flowers.
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Textures
Important,
often overlooked elements of texture can make by themselves a
statement even without flowers.
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Punctuation Points
Like
punctuation points in writing, statement elements in the garden
can help define spaces.
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Details
The smaller the
garden, the more important every detail.
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Favorite Things
The human hand
adds the touch of personality to the garden by including
favorite things.
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