Garden 21 in Historic Filipinotown
Design: Homeowner
Garden Size: 5,000 square feet front and back
Started: 2004
Notable Features: A former medical building near downtown is now a private residence with a landscape designed to restore urban habitat in a modernist style. A streetside garden with native shrubs and non-native foxtail agave stands up to car and pedestrian traffic. Sages surround a sun-drenched upper terrace with clusters of cacti and succulents. The back patio leads to an asphalt parking lot where white sage, lemonadeberry, and deergrass thrive. Uncommon natives include saffron buckwheat, Ken Taylor flannel bush, and pink-flowering sumac (from Baja California).
Photo Credit: Philip Oakley Otto
not accessible | restroom
- Open Saturday
Design: Homeowner
Garden Size: 5,000 square feet front and back
Started: 2004
Notable Features: A former medical building near downtown is now a private residence with a landscape designed to restore urban habitat in a modernist style. A streetside garden with native shrubs and non-native foxtail agave stands up to car and pedestrian traffic. Sages surround a sun-drenched upper terrace with clusters of cacti and succulents. The back patio leads to an asphalt parking lot where white sage, lemonadeberry, and deergrass thrive. Uncommon natives include saffron buckwheat, Ken Taylor flannel bush, and pink-flowering sumac (from Baja California).
Photo Credit: Philip Oakley Otto
not accessible | restroom
- Open Saturday