Landscape architect's mission: Preserve a garden's soul
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Landscape architect Rhett Beavers' Los Angeles garden
By Paula Panich
Landscape architect Rhett Beavers' Los Angeles garden is a compelling argument against what so many people do when they buy a home: Rip out the existing landscape and start over. Instead, Beavers has spent years pondering what to keep and what to change. Today the backyard is a natural beauty, filled not just with new terraced plantings but also remnants of the land's past, which includes a 1920s communal orchard. Pictured here: purple tradescantia in the foreground, weathered Adirondacks in back.
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I love plants and flowers and the exact opposite has happened to me; everytime I move to a house there is a lack of landscape gardens. To me that is a blank canvass that I can paint on. When I landscape the entire property then I move to another blank canvass to add my artisitic touch. It is cartharic and rejuvenating to landscape for me, I absolutely love to sit and look at the beauty that m garden exudes.