Today's landscape design destruction/construction - a big hole in the ground and a big pile of earth! New pool and spa for my clients in Santa Monica. How exciting! Get your swim suits ready! 😎💦🏊

Shotcrete day!

Pool modernization & design tweaks for a more minimal & clean presentation. The client wanted it to feel bigger & replace the grass with a synthetic, pet friendly, alternative. Less is more & practically maintenance free now = more time for relaxing & enjoying the outdoor space!

Studio dog Sansa supervised a little late summer pruning in the 2eden garden today. Happy Labor Day weekend!

Upgrade to an existing pool yard, all new planting, new natural/boulder retaining and seating wall, fire pit area, grass removal. Design solutions to bring greater functionality and low maintenance beauty.

Jobsite visit today. Pool cover track install last week. Coping install today. Waterline and planter wall tile next!

Just launched our new-look website. Feel free to take a peek! 2edenstudio.com

We're back! Woo-hoo! Kicking off our 9th year Oak Park USD custom plant science & gardening prog. This year's theme: FOOD! Where does it come from? How does it grow? How is farming/agriculture so important yet so destructive? Food footprints, waste & food insecurity. Let's learn!

Local peeps: This is such an inspiring organization & they have great plants too. Fall is THE BEST time for planting SoCal natives. Join the celebration, pick up some great native & waterwise plants & know that your $$ are also helping those with mental health challenges too.

Wk3 (forgot 2 post last wk) Oak Park USD 4th-5th grade. Huge plant science wk. Nitrogen fixing bacteria & the superhero legume plant family & Carbon drawdown/sequestration by plants to fight climate change. We planted Fall 'Frosty' peas & Red Clover, a Monarch fav/smart cover crop

New water-wise front yard? That's what these lovely clients are getting. So you'd like to remodel the backyard too? Let's upgrade the aging pool, add a spa & Baja shelf, an outdoor lounge-kitchen-dining combo & fire pit. Remodeled MCM landscape fresh from 2edenstudio design desk

A full circle moment! 2019 OPXC alumni Zach & Sebastian finish their college XC careers racing together, just for different colleges and with a lot more facial hair! 🤣🏃🏃‍♂️Oak Park USD Chapman TFXC Oak Park Athletics

Wk4 - 4th & 5th grade Oak Park USD Food waste & food insecurity. Each year, 1/3rd of the world's food is wasted (1.3bn tons), meanwhile 10% of the population (828 million) go hungry. We can all take action. Our 'Top Chef' game challenged teams to make new meals with 'leftovers!'

Wk5 Oak Park USD 4th&5th grade. Farming & Tech! Over the last century, tech has transformed farming efficiencies & yields in response to the need to feed our growing global population. We challenged students to invent some farm tech of their own & they did not disappoint! #nextgen

Final wk 4th&5th grade Oak Park USD We read, "The Good Garden: how one family went from hunger to having enough". A thought provoking, real account of living off the land in the hills of Honduras. Then, ending our program with a whacky, farm-favorite game of Welly/Boot Throwing!

Signs of Spring in our Oak Park USD school gardens. Students sprucing up the garden fences, bees pollinating, pea plants flowering in the greenhouse and 2nd & 3rd grade learning how to improve the soil naturally with Nitrogen-fixing soil superheroes, peas, beans & red clover.

Halfway into 6 wks with TK-1st grade Oak Park USD We have talked about farming & where food comes from, creatures vital to a healthy farm, why it is important to eat a rainbow of fruits & veggies, & how scientists found that bees need more than one type of flower nectar to thrive

2day TK-1st Oak Park USD How scientists found single crop farming contributes to bee decline. True story of CA almond growers & 2m bee colonies hired each yr to pollinate. How bees get sick eating only 1 kind of nectar. Promoting student diet variety & 5-a-day fruits&veggies🐝🌸🌻

Wrapped up our 9th year with Oak Park USD TK-1st grade. Food waste, caring for our soil, clean up the farm activity, water for the bee hive game, and a final story, How Does My Garden Grow? Sadly, funding cuts make a 10th year of garden program look unlikely. We will miss you.

This year’s culmination arrangements for Oak Park USD Red Oak & Brookside Elementary Schools. Congrats to all our 5th graders! We will miss you!