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APLD Design Award Winners in California Guide to 2016 APLD California Sponsors APLD-Sponsored Tours and Events NEW APLD District Pages Designer Spotlight Book Review, Opportunities, and more Click on the […]

  The APLD “Ask a Designer” display garden and advice booth marks its third year at the 2016 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show with  “Lawn—Long Ago”, a demonstration of the many options […]

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”   — Maya Angelou     It is a rare garden designer, contractor, or […]

Our January/February Newsletter is here! Click on the image to download.    

Tuffy Plants for the New California Garden     All landscape designers are on a timeless search for the perfect supporting players that hold a garden together—no matter what the […]

By Debbie Gliksman  I was extremely honored to receive the Merit Award for Cost Efficient Projects in the 2014 APLD Landscape Design Awards for my own garden. The challenge was […]

On September 10th and 11th, members of the California Chapter Board, District Legislative representatives, and other interested members met in Sacramento to establish the framework for APLD-CA’s engagement of legislative […]

As I sit down to write this message to you, I just came back from a 4 hour round trip drive from San Diego to Los Angeles to be able […]

Spring Flower shows are a wonderful source of inspiration and education for me. As the years go by, and with the many shows I have visited,  I find myself drawn […]

I have been gardening since I was a child; first with my father and Italian grandparents in the vegetable garden, and then learning from my artist mother with perennial gardens. […]