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

Cindy Angers

(Cindy has moved to Colorado; her entries are just here for reference)

Alexandra Ashton

Urban Flora Landscape Design (510) 612-0639; urbanflorista@gmail.com C-27 License 1033017

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

See:
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

Reka Foss*

Foss Garden Design (510) 847-0102 Reka@FossGardens.com

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

Susan Friedman’s garden, San Ramon On the Tour this year!
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

Corinne Louise Greenberg

Luke Hass

Luke Hass Fine Gardens 510-299-4529; luke@lukehassfinegardens.com
Landscape Contractor License # 933460

Miri Malmquist *

Beauty and the Feast Landscaping (510) 866-3325;
mirileore@yahoo.com

See:
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!

Gonzalo Mannucci 

Planetscaper
Gonzalo@planetscaper.com Landscape Architect #7004

Kelly Marshall *

Kelly Marshall Garden Design 617 W. Myrick Court, Clayton 94517 (925) 914-0327; Kelly@KMGardenDesign.com

Kelly McGuinness

Viridescence—Kelly McGuinness Neighborhood Gardening (415) 205-8643 KellyMcG77@gmail.com

See:
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

Christopher Reynolds

Reynolds-Sebastiani Design Services, info@reynolds-sebastiani.com

See:
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

Lois Simonds *

Gardening by Nature’s Design (510) 501-0243 lois@gardeningbynaturesdesign.com Landscape Contractor, # 893957

Liz Simpson

Liz Simpson Garden Design (Liz has moved to Seattle! Her entries are just here for reference) simpson11235@gmail.com

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.

Robert Finkels’ garden, Oakland On the Tour this year!
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

Kat and Eric Weiss’ new garden (they moved!), 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

An asterisk (*) denotes designers who are offering discount consultations to Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour participants.