by Scott Bradley | Mar 26, 2019 | Plant Selection
Shades of silver and gray are an important part of the plant palette we use at Details Landscape Art. Throughout Sonoma and Napa Counties, we design gardens that rely not only on flowers for color, but also on the foliage itself. Silver, gray, and variegated plants...
by Scott Bradley | Jul 3, 2018 | Plant Selection
After more than thirty years of designing and building gardens throughout Sonoma, Napa, Marin, and Sonoma Counties, Details Landscape Art has developed a list of favorite plants that seem to appear repeatedly in our landscape designs. While every garden is unique,...
by Scott Bradley | Mar 27, 2018 | Plant Selection
Special situation plants address challenging areas that require special attention in every garden. Deep shade, damp soil, retaining walls, steep slopes, and difficult growing conditions often call for carefully selected plant material. At Details Landscape Art, we...
by Scott Bradley | Mar 13, 2018 | Plant Selection
One of the staples in a garden designed and installed by Details Landscape Art is ceanothus. Deep blue ceanothus Ceanothus is an evergreen shrub native to California, although some species do grow in the Rocky...
by Scott Bradley | Jan 16, 2018 | Garden Design, Plant Selection
In many of our blogs we talk about color—color in the foliage, color in the flowers, color in autumn, and the importance of contrast. The most basic of all colors, and Mother Nature’s natural color, is green. The various shades of green leaves, along with the...