Gruenberg container garden

Stefani Gruenberg creates the earthy planters using templates in her studio.

Last September, Stefani and Peter Gruenberg removed their front lawn and installed flagstone walkways, drought-tolerant groundcover dymondia margaretae and an assortment of rocks and pebbles and low-water plants. The landscape is decorated with her homemade planters.

A “tush” pot on display in the patio.

More Gruenberg–designed planters surround a fountain by John Richen in the courtyard.

Nasturtiums mix with flowering purple kale in the garden.

The garden mixes rocks with drought-tolerant plants.

Stefani Gruenberg’s planters are covered in low-fired glazes and some are decorated with drips her granddaughter applied with an eye dropper, shown here. “I wanted them to look like they came out of the same volcano as the flagstone,” she explains.

Stefani Gruenberg, a longtime ceramic artist, created and installed hand-sculpted planters that are turning heads in her Westwood neighborhood.

Ceramic artist Stefani Gruenberg sits among the planters she made for the artistic garden at her Los Angeles home.