Martinez Garden

About Martinez Garden

Along the flats where Colma Creek runs quietly through South San Francisco's neighborhoods, the front gardens are small and taken personally. Martinez Garden works at that scale — the modest lawn kept even, the rose bed weeded by hand, the lemon tree pruned so it keeps giving, the walk swept before the truck pulls away. Saturday mornings smell like cut grass down these blocks, and that is the calling card. The garden care extends to planting and refreshing beds as the mild climate allows, which here is nearly always. Small yards, closely kept, are their own kind of abundance.