Garden Tour 2015

Our 2015 tour featured an inviting DIY greenhouse, a relaxing hidden jewel Koi pond, a dunes inspired native plant garden, a garden built before Marina became a city, a Japanese inspired dry stream bed, the Goodwill Food Garden, low care xeriscape garden, and the ever popular Los Arboles school garden.

Darrilyn and Brian

Darrilyn and Brian

Guest sign-in

Bowling balls customized by Darylin

Found object become garden art

second use for old wine barrel staves

DIY Green House that Brian built

glass mosaic table made by Darilyn

Sign from old family business

Photo timeline of building green house

DIY Green house that Brian built

Interior of the Green House

Warmest spot in the garden

DIY Green House that Brian built

another whimsical detail in the garden

Astrid

Astrid with her friend Lise

Many interesting combinations of foliage color

Easy care DG walkways and lots of low water color

The enclosed walled space is protected from the prevailing ocean wind

Astrid shared photos of the yard from the late 1940’s

Lisa

Lisa and Grace

Front walkway welcomes visitors in

Foliage color dominated the carefully selected plantings

Water capture from the room is directed to water plantings around the house

Wildflowers benefit from the directed water

Fairy rock garden by fron entry

Fairy appearing on the rock

Resident painted rock koi reside in the dry stream bed

This garden had many Japanese inspired rock features

Mike

Mike shares his beach side native garden vision

Glorious bougainvillea in the front entrance

Many beds feature local native plants that thrive in dunes and chaparral plant communities

Back gate entrance out to the Armstrong Ranch

Raised vegetable beds in the sunniest spot

Tree humor

Driftwood wind around the house

Mike placed all of the rock to build the beds and define paths

Plant ID directly attached (not recommended)

Brian and Linda

George and Renee

“Magic Carpet” Drosanthemum floribundum drapes along the retaining wall

A pop of color on the turquoise fence

Warm oasis to relax and enjoy the sound of falling water

Seriously, there were some very large koi

Koi greeting visitors

Details of the falling water into the pond

More of the pond and pump workings

A surprise peach tree loaded with fruit

Goodwill Food Garden

Goodwill Food Garden Hosts Greg, Bill and Juli

A full bed of artichokes

Some of the 88 garden beds on the site

On-site Hugelkultur feature grows fava beans

Open areas with numerous pollinator plants

Arch built with volunteer CSUMB students

Los Arboles Middle School

Teacher Anna Munoz welcomes toour attendees

Students decorated the straw bale garden

Old tub growing CA popies and other wildflowers

Student art

More student art

Commemorative plaque

More student signage

Greenhouse used to grow many seedlings for garden

Some of the newer beds on the slope

A real garden “bed”

Creative repurposing teaches reuse and recycling

More student artwork

Song of the succulents

Brian and Linda

Brian and Linda

Dry creek with boy on bike sculpture crossing the bridge

Birdhouse mounted on natural branch

View of low maintenance xeriscaped garden