Beautifully Crafted
A Moroccan courtyard
San Francisco―If Casablanca had ended differently, Bergman and Bogart might have lived happily ever after in a Moroccan-style courtyard like this one. You can easily picture the star-crossed lovers embracing in this lush, romantic garden.
Designer Stephen Suzman took advantage of the courtyard’s wind-protected site to offer a warm, secluded retreat for entertaining or relaxing. Marble-capped seat walls and hand-painted tile benches provide the perfect places to linger. Trickling water from a wall fountain flows through a stair-stepped runnel (water channel) into the patio below to provide soothing sound.
A huge mayten tree shades the courtyard. Planted beneath it, and in the matching raised bed across the runnel, is a collection of bold and textural plants such as abutilon, acanthus, agapanthus, and Tasmanian tree fern. Dozens of pots filled with foliage and flowers decorate the seat wall and patio.
