Western garden design awards

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