Gaia Garden Design

About Gaia Garden Design

A garden plan gets drawn in the rain around here — from October to May the water comes down off the Jacoby Creek hills and tells you exactly where a yard will drain and where it will sulk. Gaia Garden Design starts from that reading: how the ground sheds water, where the redwood shade falls at four in the afternoon, what a bed can honestly be asked to hold. From there come planting layouts, new beds, and the ongoing care that keeps a young garden from turning into a thicket. The moment worth waiting for is the second year, when the shapes stop looking new and start looking inevitable. Arcata and Bayside, from the creek bottom to the ridge road.