There's no mistaking one of Barbara Katz's gardens. Katz, a garden designer who owns London Landscapes LLC and practices in the Washington DC area, is a master in the art of color, texture and architectural form. The garden was one of four featured in a recent tour by the local chapter of APLD.
This particular site in Bethesda, MD was nearly devoid of landscape plants when the project first began. Katz fashioned a number of garden rooms where the homeowners can hang out, all packed with interesting cultivars you won't see in every garden.
Katz's husband, an architect, designed an addition on the back of the existing residence that includes a ground-level pool, with doors that open out into the landscape for use in warmer months.
There's not an inch of ground in this garden that's not planted with something ... and Katz is not afraid to use a small patch of gooseneck loosestrife, which many designers would not go near.
Note as well the lovely stonework, and the placement of plants within it. Katz is well known for plant trials in her own garden, as well as careful study of cultivars -- so when she tells you that 'Hearts of Gold' is the best cercis cultivar with yellow leaves, you know you're getting the right info.
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