Our Favorite Plants

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,...

Plantings for Special Situations

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...
Plant Combinations

Plant Combinations

A Sonoma design-build landscaper, Details Landscape Art specializing in the creation of beautiful, exciting gardens. It is not accidental that our gardens look so amazing. And it’s not so much the plants that we choose as it is the plant groupings we select. A good...

Shades of Green

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...

Color For All Seasons

Details Landscape Art, a Sonoma County landscape design-build contractor, creates gardens that look amazing all year long.  And one of the keys to success is a planting scheme that shows color in each of the four seasons. In earlier posts we discussed color in the...