Experience one of California’s most fantastical, magical, exotic, and eccentric private gardens during The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) annual day-long excursion in Pasadena on Tuesday, September 15 held in conjunction with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference on Landscape Architecture. TCLF’s annual, curated excursions feature exceptional examples of landscape architecture and design; they are eagerly anticipated, extremely popular, and always sell out months in advance.
The day begins at The Hill where, in a Phoenix-from-the-ashes-like move, Paul Casebeer transformed a mundane, poison-oak infested landscape into an astonishing work of art that utilizes the most disparate recycled materials including mosaic tiles, manhole covers, and the roof line of a former Chinese restaurant. And he did it by hand. The lush garden is filled with rare and exotic plants, including South African cycads, many varieties of aloe, and hundreds of other hard-to-find succulents and drought-tolerant species.
Next stop a three-course lunch, at Caltech campus’ crown jewel, the Athenaeum, a Mediterranean-style enclave by English-born architect Gordon Kaufmann in 1930 with lush grounds by the dynamic duo of Hollywood landscape design Florence Yoch and Lucille Council (Yoch also did the set of Tara for Gone with the Wind). The site has hosted renowned thinkers and scholars, including Albert Einstein and several other Nobel laureates.
The tour will conclude at the Hindry House, an Arts and Crafts style home designed by architects Arthur and Alfred Heineman (1910); the site and landscape design was believed to have been designed by the latter. In 1970 landscape architect Courtland Paul, FASLA, was commissioned to design a swimming pool and associated landscaping; the project helped Paul to become a globally recognized resort designer. Landscape architect Lisa Gimmy will take us through her masterful—and award-winning—rehabilitation created a more resilient and drought tolerant landscape that honors the original planting design.
All proceeds benefit TCLF’s education and advocacy initiatives.
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