The folks over at Houzz.com have featured a couple of our gardens again, this time in an article on “Reimagining the Rose Garden.” Click here to read it!

This intimate garden in Pasadena was just featured in Apartment Therapy, one of our favorite interior design websites. The slideshow above includes a process shot of faux-finishing the custom-designed trellis, as well as a “before” photo. Click here to see … Continue reading →

The lovely folks over at HGTV came to interview Heather about the Victorian Storybook garden. Their gorgeous video beautifully captures the magic of the garden. Check it out above, or click here.

Our friends at Sunset Magazine have featured us in their latest issue! It’s a great article on how groundcover and hardscape can be woven together to create graphically exciting garden designs. For a preview, check out their website here. Then … Continue reading →

Spring has finally arrived, which locally has meant both sunshine and thunderstorms. The gardens aren’t confused though. Here’s what a quick “shoot-around” this morning yielded.

The gardens are heavily laden with an almost overwhelming blend of scents. Constellations of Pittosporum undulatum blooms sparkle in the canopy above, pouring out thick, sweet perfume. Clouds of Jasminum polyanthum float through trellises and archways, tilting tiny torpedoes skyward. … Continue reading →

Last week saw a mini fashion show at Lenkin Design: the runway was the dining room table and the models were floral centerpieces! Designed by Tommy Farmer Studios in Pasadena, these elegant beauties were vying to strut their stuff at … Continue reading →

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, last summer Heather traveled to Spain and Portugal to source handmade tile. While in Spain, she was inspired by geometric abstraction integral to the Moorish architecture found throughout the South. Much of … Continue reading →

Even as the gardens are crisscrossed with trenches and littered with the debris of rebuilding, Nature continues in her usual course unperturbed. The presaging of Spring is literally in the air, as the mornings are scented by Pittosporum undulatum trees, … Continue reading →

It’s been over two months since the ferocious windstorms of last December ravaged the Pasadena area, and the cleanup continues. When the gales uprooted trees and exploded our electrical panel here at Lenkin Gardens, it also took the garden lighting … Continue reading →

Last week we shared Heather’s visit to the palaces of the Alhambra in Southern Spain, and how she found inspiration not just in the magnificent gardens but also in the refined geometric detailing of Moorish architecture. We mentioned that these … Continue reading →

The nice folks over at Houzz.com talked to us about one of our favorite roses, the gorgeous yet practical “Sally Holmes.” They produced a great article which you can read here. And if you haven’t checked out Houzz.com yet, please … Continue reading →