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Garden Show Displays
Design, Lifestyle

Southern California Spring Garden Show

The 33rd annual Southern California Spring Garden Show will be held April 20-23 at South Coast Plaza in the Crate & Barrel/Macy’s Home Store side, across the appropriately named Bridge of Gardens.  The Garden Show offers a range of attractions, including 35 vendors specializing in plants and gardening supplies, eight impressive display gardens, a striking 25-foot centerpiece, and an exhibit called Fleurs de Villes Voyage. This exhibit is particularly noteworthy for its unique use of […]

Design, Lifestyle

THE GREEN SCENE

The latest wave of drought-tolerant gardens go low on water and high on style  By Alexandria Abramian More and more designers are taking the garden beyond the water-guzzling lawn to create more sustainable outdoor spaces. The result? A new kind of garden groove that invites gatherings without draining precious resources. Meet the New Splash Zone For this Newport Heights home, designer Raili Clasen of RailiCA skipped the sod and used artificial turf for a soft […]

Real Estate

TAKING A TEAM APPROACH

Tim Carr Group finds strength—and success—in numbers Photos by Hugo Landa Photography What inspired you to form your own team of agents? I initially started as an assistant to Bill Feeney, who was the number-one residential real estate agent in Orange County in the late ’80s. At that time, nobody had an assistant nor team in residential real estate. The market was fragmented with a lot of small brokerages. There were no mega brokerages as […]

Art

THE GARDEN OF SECRETS

SCAPE celebrates its 20th anniversary with Lawrence Fodor’s solo exhibit, Il Giardino dei Segreti Lawrence Fodor, a painter and photographer with studios in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, travels often to Italy. While visiting Rome in 2022, he happened upon the frescoed dining room from the Villa of Livia in the Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo. The frescoes, a magical garden painted between 30-20 BCE, lost to time and not unearthed until 1863, […]