Find a Designer
The following is contact information for native plant landscape designers whose gardens have been showcased on previous tours, or whose gardens are appearing on this year’s Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. Having a designer spend a couple of hours talking with you at your garden is a wonderful—and inexpensive—way to get started gardening with natives! Consider having one of these designers come over to your garden for a one-hour consultation.
An asterisk (*) denotes designers who are offering discount consultations to Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour participants. Just mention the Tour to receive your discount.
Beneath each designer’s name is a list of the gardens that s/he has designed. If you would like to see samples of a landscaper’s work, just click on any of the gardens below to view photographs, read extensive garden descriptions, and download plant lists. Some of these gardens were featured on prior Tours; gardens that will be participating in this year’s Tour have been marked for your convenience.
Rick Alatorre *
Alatorre Garden Design 3101 Roosevelt Avenue, Richmond CA 94804 (510) 932-9913; alatorregardens@gmail.com
Rick and Monica Alatorre’s garden, Richmond
Martha and Greg Alexander’s garden, Pleasant Hill
Gabriele and Don Briggs’ garden, Richmond
Rollin and Pam Coville’s garden, Richmond
Cheryl Chi and Brandon Young’s garden, San Leandro
Catherine De Schepper’s garden, Berkeley
Bill and Linda Dick’s garden, Moraga
Laurel Eber’s garden, Richmond
Keith Hamby’s garden, El Cerrito
Pat and John Hierro’s garden, Castro Valley
Sue and Julio Kaplan’s garden, El Cerrito
Heidi Goldstein and Richard Thomason’s garden, Berkeley
Ann Keri and Richard Leaf’s garden, Berkeley
David Matthews and Liz Guthridge’s garden, Kensington
Noel Plummer’s garden, Albany
Lois Reynolds and Terry Mead’s garden, Orinda
Merry West’s garden, Martinez
Cindy Angers
(Cindy has moved to Colorado; her entries are just here for reference)
Cindy Angers’ garden, Livermore
Carol and Ted Crosly’s garden, Livermore
Teri Henson’s garden, Livermore
Alexandra Ashton
Urban Flora Landscape Design (510) 612-0639; urbanflorista@gmail.com C-27 License 1033017
Bill and Nancy English’s garden, Orinda
Tré Frane’s garden, Orinda
Pat Rudebusch’s garden, Orinda
Donna Bodine *
BeeLand Farms
(510) 325-9727; donna@beelandfarms.com
Sallie Bryan *
4B Garden Design: Creating native gardens for California’s bees, birds, bugs & butterflies
(510) 859-4535; sallie@4bgardendesign.com
Susan Billings and Dennis Fortin’s garden, El Cerrito
Sallie Bryan’s garden, Berkeley On the Tour this year!
Pamela Fox’ garden, El Cerrito (front garden design) New this year!
Calvin Craig
Calvin Craig Landscaping (925) 935-5269, Pleasant Hill, CA Contractor C-27 #545003; calvin@craiglandscaping.com
Ursula Bartel’s garden
Reka Foss*
Foss Garden Design (510) 847-0102 Reka@FossGardens.com
Leesa Evans and Steve Danziger’s garden, Orinda
Martha and Kerwin Lee’s garden, Lafayette
Nancy and Bryan Collins garden, Walnut Creek
Four Dimensions Landscape Company *
Four Dimensions Landscape Company 2928 Poplar Street, Oakland CA 94608 (510) 893-1999 design-build@fourdimensionslandscape.com Landscape Architect, #2906; Landscape Contractor, #484907 Certified Horticulturalist
See:
Melinda and Steve Ballard’s garden, Pleasanton
Jennifer Becker and Dean Mayer’s garden, Moraga
Betsy Brazy and John Cartan’s garden, Alameda
Castro Valley Sanitary District Garden, Castro Valley
Anne Chambers and Ed McAlpine’s garden, Moraga On the Tour this year!
Beverly Cheney and Avrum Gratch’s garden, Berkeley
Beth Clark’s garden, Pleasanton
Clytia and Joe Curley’s garden, Oakland
Peg Farrell’s garden, Oakland
Gail Giffen’s garden, Lafayette
Marilyn and Carl Hirsch’s garden, Walnut Creek
Joanne Holland and Scott MacPherson’s garden, Oakland
Trina and Jeff Horner’s garden, Walnut Creek
Tim and Michelle Inama’s garden, Oakland
Carrie Knapp’s garden, Oakland
BJ and Larry Ledgerwood’s garden, Walnut Creek
David Loeb’s garden, Berkeley
Joseph McClintock’s garden, Oakland
Meg McShannic and Dave Wallace’s garden, Walnut Creek
Catherine Millar’s garden, Oakland
Betty Nelson’s garden, Lafayette
Randal and Azalea Ong’s garden, Castro Valley
Martha Preble and John Hernandez’ garden, Oakland
Shary Rosenbaum’s garden, Moraga
Phyllis Rothman’s garden, Berkeley
Price and Bernice Russ’ garden, Walnut Creek
Nancy Salsig’s garden, Martinez On the Tour this year!
Gail Schino’s garden, San Leandro
Seibi Lee and Joel Schoolnik’s garden, Kensington
Cynthia and Richard Simons’ garden, Castro Valley On the Tour this year!
Susan and Bill Teefy’s garden, Castro Valley On the Tour this year!
Valerie and Harry Thurston’s garden, Antioch
Mike and Mardi Veiluva’s garden, Walnut Creek
Kathy and David Welch’s garden, Piedmont
Matthew White’s garden, Berkeley
Susan Friedman *
Susan Friedman Landscape Architecture (925) 806-0643, San Ramon, Landscape Architect, #3893; info@SusanFriedmanLandscape.com
Lorraine Kalich’s garden, San Ramon On the Tour this year!
Nancy and Clark Vandell’s garden San Ramon
Todd Gilens
Todd Gilens Design (415) 309-3584; todd@toddgilens.com
Jennifer Hurley and Dan Gaff’s garden, Alameda
Jennifer Hurley and Dan Gaff’s garden, Livermore On the Tour this year!
Corinne Louise Greenberg
Luke Hass
Luke Hass Fine Gardens 510-299-4529; luke@lukehassfinegardens.com
Landscape Contractor License # 933460
Jenny and Scott Fleming’s garden (maint. only), Berkeley
Louise Miller’s garden, Oakland
Elizabeth Pierson and William Rainey’s garden, Berkeley
Miri Malmquist *
Beauty and the Feast Landscaping (510) 866-3325; mirileore@yahoo.com
Pamela Fox’ garden, El Cerrito (back garden design and install) New this year!
Beatrice and Bjorn Hori’s garden, Albany On the Tour this year!
Kelly Marshall *
Kelly Marshall Garden Design 617 W. Myrick Court, Clayton 94517 (925) 914-0327; Kelly@KMGardenDesign.com
Karen and Jeremy Amos’ garden, Clayton
Debby and John Butterworth’s garden, Concord
Roy and Rosadelia Detwiler’s garden, Concord
Juan Pablo Galván Martínez’ garden, New this year!
Laura Kindsvater’s garden, Antioch New this year!
Kelly Marshall and Mike Weidner’s garden, Clayton
Sally Mathews’s garden Oakland
Patricia Ramsay and Shawn O’Leary’s garden, Alamo
Nancie Ryan’s garden, Dublin
Miguel and Deborah Torres’ garden, Castro Valley
Kelly McGuinness
Viridescence—Kelly McGuinness Neighborhood Gardening (415) 205-8643 KellyMcG77@gmail.com
Diana Marshall Mei’s garden, El Sobrante
Sandra Nevala-Lee*
Green Thumb Works (510) 502-0992 greenthumbworks@hey.com Lawn conversion consultant; approved designer for EBMUD Design Assistance Program.
See:
Cecelia Fusich’s garden, Castro Valley On the Tour this year!
Plantkind *
Specializing in native plant landscape design, working throughout the Bay Area and northern California
Plantkind
e-mail: hi@plantkind.earth
Amelia Petrovic’s garden, Oakland
Christopher Reynolds
Reynolds-Sebastiani Design Services, info@reynolds-sebastiani.com
Sherene Arjani’s garden, Oakland New this year!
Peter Rohan
LandSpaces Landscape Architect #6033, Landscape Contractor, C-27 #899334 Richmond CA (510) 672-1642; Peter@LandSpaces.com
Paul Glodis and Mary Jo Sanders’ garden
Richmond History Museum’s Native Plant Garden, Richmond
Peter and Jocelyn Rohan’s garden, Richmond
Lois Simonds *
Gardening by Nature’s Design (510) 501-0243 lois@gardeningbynaturesdesign.com Landscape Contractor, # 893957
Gretchen Pivonka’s garden, Alameda
Mary Ann Walsh and Richard Carter’s garden, Oakland On the Tour this year!
Nancy Warfield and David Gray’s garden, El Cerrito
Lauren Webster’s garden, Oakland
Wayne Whitney’s garden, Berkeley
Liz Simpson
Liz Simpson Garden Design (Liz has moved to Seattle! Her entries are just here for reference) simpson11235@gmail.com
Gaston and Ariane Habets’ garden, Pleasant Hill
Robin and Neil Heydon’s garden, Alameda
Rita Hurault’s garden, Oakland
Joanna and Andrew Katz’ garden, Oakland
Joan Lohman and Jenn Biehn’s garden, Oakland
Tai Moses and Michael Kerner’s garden, Oakland
Mary Pellerin’s garden, Oakland
Wen Hui Shen’s garden, Oakland
Susan Weber’s garden, Oakland
Pete Veilleux *
East Bay Wilds 2777 Foothill Blvd, Oakland, CA 94601 (510) 409-5858; pete@eastbaywilds.com
Photos of our work can be seen here.
Karen Anderson’s garden, El Sobrante
Mary Ashby and Bob Beggs’ garden, Castro Valley
Castro Valley Center for the Arts Garden, Castro Valley
Steven and Linda Cochrane’s garden, Oakland
Mary Cooper’s garden, Castro Valley On the Tour this year!
Diane Fagan’s garden, Oakland
Lessly Field’s garden, Berkeley
Natalie and Armand’s garden, Alameda
Janet Parks’ garden, Kensington On the Tour this year!
Maria Sargent’s garden, Danville On the Tour this year!
Natalie Forrest and Douglas Sprague‘s garden, Hayward On the Tour this year!
Clara Lai and Howard Torf’s garden, Walnut Creek
Nita Stull’s garden, El Sobrante
Roy West’s garden, (maintenance only), Berkeley
The Williams’ Family garden, Alameda
Kat Weiss
Kat Weiss Landscape Design Landscape Architect, CA #4804 Livermore CA (925) 518-9083; Please note that Kat is only working in the Tri-Valley area (Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, and San Ramon), and she is only designing California native plant gardens. kat@kwlanddesign.com
John and Fran Alcorn’s garden, Brentwood
Ann Brown and Steve Ketzler’s garden, Livermore
Tim and Chris Boczanowski’s garden, Livermore
Kathy and Don Brancheau’s garden, San Ramon
Carol Bruton’s garden, Livermore
Hannah and George Farquar’s garden, Livermore
Maria and David Dawson’s garden, Livermore On the Tour this year!
Dianne Griffiths’ garden, San Ramon New this year!
Dixie Finley’s garden, Livermore
Ed and Liz Folsom’s garden, Livermore
Carol and Don Hardesty’s garden, Livermore On the Tour this year!
Darcy Horne’s garden, Livermore
Stephanie Jones and John Kundert’s garden, Livermore
Kate and Andy Mackinnon’s garden, Livermore
Elise and Mike McFarland’s garden, Livermore
Pat and Lisa Sotelo’s garden, Livermore
Louann Tung’s garden, Livermore
Janis Turner’s garden, Livermore
Bryan Weber and Donna Edwards’ garden, Livermore
Kat and Eric Weiss’ garden, Livermore
Kathy Crane and David Weise, Yerba Buena Nursery
We’ve Gone Native kathy@nativeplants.com Located in Half Moon Bay: Service area is the Peninsula to the South Bay
Anna Wendorf *
Anna Wendorf Design (925) 300-5786 anna.wendorf@gmail.com
Lauren Kindorf’s garden, Clayton