Drew Brown Landscapes & Stone
Against the timeless San Jacinto mountain range, Palm Springs is a year round destination that blends an intoxicating mix of culture, cuisine, landscape and outdoor pursuits. Palm Springs comes to life for the famous Coachella Valley music festival held close Read more
Sometimes called the ‘paper flower’ due to the texture of its coloured leaves, bougainvillea is found in residential and commercial landscapes, and even along highways and roadsides, all over the world. A staple in the courtyard gardens of Greece and Read more
Where there’s a rainforest, there’s a reef because – fun fact! – coral is grown from rainforest emissions. It may be vastly over simplified statement about a very complex scientific phenomenon however this is one of the things DBLS found Read more
On all the old maps it is simply called ‘Sandalwood Isle’. Windswept, remote, wild, the picturesque island of Sumba was crucial to the spice trade for centuries. Sitting within the Indonesian archipelago in the Lesser Sunda islands group, it is close Read more
In Hollywood, it’s well known that appearances are everything and a recent visit on a sunny winter California day by DBLS to the feted suburb of Los Angeles, home to the stars, was a lesson in horticultural high maintenance. The Read more
The former Annenberg Estate’s public educational center, run by The Annenberg Foundation and Trust is known as the Sunnylands Center. The Center totals 15 acres and includes 9 acres of desert gardens designed by landscape architect James Burnett. The gardens Read more
Walter and Leonore Annenberg’s extravagant Sunnylands morphs into view at the eponymously named Rancho Mirage in Palm Springs, two hours east of Los Angeles. With spectacular views out to the surrounding San Jacinto desert mountain range, the spread is one Read more