Garden designers Barry Campion and Nicholas Walker terraced a Malibu hill and covered it with both California native plants and those from similar climates. A playhouse overlooks the hill’s colorful array of salvias, buckwheat, flannel bush, penstemon, ceanothus, coastal sagebrush, deergrass, lilac verbena, pink rockrose, yellow Jerusalem sage and purple echium. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Fremontodendron “California Glory.” (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
A native grass meadow of vetiver, Carex pansa and wildflowers provides a walking route around and through the garden. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
To create a textural effect, the designers incorporated acacia, aloe, agave, succulent dudleya from Baja, local foothill yucca, California poppies, native grasses and pride of Madeira. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Artemisia pycnocephalax “David’s Choice.” (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Hybrid tree mallow. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Britton’s chalk dudleya. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Salvias, lavender and grasses border a garden pathway. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
Buckwheat spills onto terrace stairs. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
John Dourley manzanita. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
“Trish,” a Persoff’s hybrid monkey flower. (Lisa Romerein / For the Times)
