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A Los Altos Town Crier Publication

Spring/Summer 2015

HaciendaharmonyLos Altos couplebring outdoors in

Lawn orderExpert offers tips ondefying the drought

Also inside:• Garden photography• Wild foods• Prudent pruning

| Home & Garden | April 29, 2015

Home & Garden | April 29, 2015 |


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HaciendaGeorgia and James Markarian remodeled their Los Altos home in the classic hacienda style, emphasizing seamless transitions from the indoors to the out.

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LawnsA local landscape

expert shares ideas for maintaining

a lawn despite the myriad statewide

drought restrictions.

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PhotosGardens are filled with inspiration for phographers – knowing what to focus on is crucial.

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Wild FoodsNaturally occurring plants in the garden

can offer culinary treats and create a

palate of new flavors.

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PruningLearn to mimic nature when pruning native shrubs and plants in the garden.

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By Carolyn SnyderSpecial to the Town Crier

In their “modern” – not adobe – hacienda, there’s a touch of Mexico. And, just like the lyrics of that clas-sic song, “harmony is everywhere.”

Every room opens to the outdoors in Georgia and James Markarian’s reconstructed home in Los Altos – typical of a hacienda – and bougainvillea and jasmine grow on wire trellises affixed to the house. A Spanish clay tile roof and colorful Heath tile mosaics add to the character. The Markarians purchased the house, built in 1998, in 2005. Five years later, they wanted to update the kitch-en and add a guest room. They enlisted architect Alex Bergtraun of Studio Bergtraun in Emeryville and general contractor Chris Romero of Romero Construction Inc. in Woodside. “It snowballed a bit,” Georgia said of what became a nearly three-year project. “We found problems once we opened the walls, so it was taken down to the studs and rebuilt.”

HACIENDA

Modern haciendaLos Altos couple enjoy indoor-outdoor living

PHOTOS BY MEGAN V. WINSLOW/TOWN CRIER

The facade of the Markarian family’s Los Altos home, above, boasts Heath tile mosaic columns and a 9-foot trellis. The interior entryway, below, features the same Jerusalem tiles and a Douglas fir cathedral ceiling.

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Bringing the outdoors in The footprint remained the same, but Bergtraun trans-formed the house into one that better suited an indoor-outdoor lifestyle and presented a neighborhood-friendly facade to the street. The walkways and entry are paved in Jerusalem Gold limestone, which is carried into the interior of the home, allowing a natural progression from outdoors to indoors. A 9-foot trellis is cantilevered over the entrance. On either side of the massive rift-sawn white-oak dou-ble-entry doors are Heath tile mosaic columns. Above the doorway is a large crescent-shaped window, framed in the same tiles, which allows morning light to pour into the open foyer. The foyer boasts a 17-foot Douglas fir cathedral ceiling and French-oak walls with built-in nooks for displaying art. The blue and clear glass pendant lights are “just like the ones at the old Trader Vic’s,” James said. “We chose wood for the ceilings and walls because of its warmth in contrast to the stone floors,” Georgia added. The dramatic tongue-and-groove vaulted vertical-grain Douglas fir ceiling in the open living area draws the eye to a large window framing the patio, pool and play area. Sliding glass “barn doors” on either side open to the outdoors. The window features a handcrafted Ciara walnut

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A see-through saltwater aquarium divides the dining room from the living area in the Markarians’ Los Altos home.


indoor/outdoor table. Imagine a table sliced in half, then made whole again, with glass between the halves. “The illusion of one piece of wood spanning the two areas lets the individual feel connected to the side they are not on,” said the table’s creator, Jonathan Edie of Chajo in Napa. He and partner Chanin Cook custom-made many of the home’s furnishings, such as the Ciara walnut table and steel chairs in the dining room. They are frequent exhibi-tors at the Rotary Club of Los Altos’ Fine Art in the Park. “It was important to use beautiful, warm woods, some with natural edges, to bring an organic, natural feel to the interior,” Edie said.

Showcase kitchen The dining room opens off the foyer and is separated from the living area by a see-through saltwater aquarium. A frosted glass pocket door leads to the kitchen. And what a kitchen it is. The cabinets are custom-made walnut; the sinks and countertops are concrete terrazzo. The exception is the peninsula separating the kitchen and living area. It boasts a Spekva wood counter (from Den-mark) with a waterfall edge. The peninsula serves as a breakfast bar for the fam-ily. In addition, there is a built-in dining nook for fam-ily meals and homework. The nook’s magnetized walls

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provide an ever-changing gallery for art projects by the Markari-ans’ children, Sofia, 11, and Enzo, 6, both of whom attend Covington School. Sofia had a hand in the home’s decor. She picked the grass shades for the bedrooms, designed the tile mosaic surround for the garage doors and picked the blue glass bubble tile for the whimsical bath-room she shares with her brother. It features a fused-glass countertop and bamboo cabinetry with blue glass knobs. Perks in the redesign are an of-fice with sliding glass doors to a pa-tio in front, a children’s “office” and playroom, and a guest room (the catalyst for the project) with a built-in sewing nook and Murphy bed. When the bed is “up,” a table comes “down” to provide a work surface. The apex of the L-shaped hacienda is the interior courtyard with its pool, patio and outdoor kitchen. A red-wood-and-steel trellis covers the eating area, and a Heath tile mosaic enlivens the bar area.

A special feature is a 3-foot wall clock with handmade tile indicators built into a wall so that mom and kids can keep track of time. In addition, there’s a recessed trampo-line and play area.

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The wood ceilings and walls in the Markarians family’s Los Altos home offer a warm contrast to the tile flooring.


Eco-friendly focus The Markarians’ landscape architect was their neigh-bor, Suzanne Kasso, who used California native plants to create a sustainable, environmentally friendly garden. Vidal Jacob was the landscape installer and maintains the garden. “Our boulders were leftovers from the Packard Foun-dation,” Georgia said. “We loved them and our contractor traced them to the source in Santa Cruz.” The house is eco-friendly (see sidebar on page 11) and just plain friendly. “Our goal was a modern hacienda that was clean but warm and inviting,” Georgia said.

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A pool, outdoor kitchen and play area highlight the Markarians’ backyard, above. The home’s skylights, left, balance the light, said architect Alex Bergtraun.


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Sustainability

When Georgia and James Markarian launched their remodel, they wanted it to be eco-friendly.

“We were aware of any green things we could do – ra-diant heating, appliances, faucets. It was very important to us,” Georgia said. “We did what we could, including do-nating the old parts of the house to Habitat for Humanity.” Here’s what they did: • Added interior windows and skylights that open to provide more light and air circulation. Architect Alex Bergtraun said the skylights balance the light, and the combination of windows and skylights gives the house an opportunity to “naturally breathe.” • Added solar pool heating. “We couldn’t do solar heating for the main electrical because of a neighbor’s tree blocking the location,” Geor-gia said. • Insulated the building “envelope” to include the latest efficiencies and beyond for Title 24 Energy Compliance. • Used renewable bamboo for most cabinetry. • Used low- to zero-VOC for all paint, and built cabine-try with non-offgassing plywood material. • Used a lighting management system along with LED uplighting for most efficient energy consumption. • Built kitchen and bath countertops out of renewable-resource materials. • Used engineered sheathing and framing throughout the house. “The best part is that we can control everything from the phone,” Georgia said. N

PHOTOS BY MEGAN V. WINSLOW/TOWN CRIER


By Astrid GaiserSpecial to the Town Crier

Drought conditions are continuing, calling attention to one of the main potable water usages in resi-dential areas: outdoor watering of lawns and or-

namentals. The State Water Resources Control Board released Emergency Regulations for Statewide Urban Water Con-servation last July. One of the measures banned the ap-plication of potable water to outdoor landscapes in a man-ner that causes runoff such that water flows onto adjacent property, nonirrigated areas, private and public walkways, roadways, parking lots or structures. Other nonirrigation-related guidelines included a ban on potable water for cleaning driveways and side-walks and for use in fountains and other decorative water

Lawns and the drought

COURTESY OF ASTRID GAISER

In this season of ongoing drought, homeowners can maintain a lawn using innovative irrigation systems.Continued on Page 14

LAWNS


features, except where the water is part of a recir-culating system. The state adopted the following additional measures last month to encourage reduction in landscape watering. • Banned watering lawns and landscaping with potable water within 48 hours after measur-able rainfall or during the rainfall. • Required cities, counties, water districts and private companies to limit lawn watering to two days per week. The California Water Service Co. has confirmed that the two-day limit will apply locally.

Longing for lawn? What if you would still like to have a lawn? Many of my clients do. Some of them have children or dogs, hail from the East Coast where lawns are plentiful and remind them of home or simply just prefer to main-tain one. There are ways to do it. Following are my suggestions for those who want to keep a lawn during a drought. • Reduce the overall size of your lawn. Convert part of the previous lawn area into a patio or new planting area. Use the landscape rebates offered on Cal Water’s web-site at calwater.com/conservation/rebates-and-programs/

residential/las. • Use the newest irrigation equipment and native, un-thirsty grass mixes. The latest technique in watering re-sponsibly is subsurface drip irrigation – watering from below. • Avoid the worst water-wasters: overspraying, mist-ing, broken spray heads, evaporation and bad distribution uniformity (meaning that you overwater most of your lawn just to get one area to remain green).



LAWNS


A crew places soil over a Hunter Eco-Mat, a device that creates a lining to help a lawn hold moisture longer.


Product innovations An effective new product entering the residential mar-ket is the Hunter Eco-Mat. To install it, remove 4 inches of soil, roll out and tuck down the “irrigation carpet” and then backfill and tamp down the soil with a water roller. The innovative fleece lining holds the water for a long time. The Hunter representative confirmed that the new system had a nearly 100 percent distribution uniformity. Because commonly used overhead systems usually over-water areas as mentioned above and are known for an ap-proximate 70 percent uniformity, the device could result in water savings of 30-40 percent. Using a native grass mix like the Delta Bluegrass Co. Native Mow Free allows even more water savings. Once the grass is established, it will use approximately half the water of a traditional lawn, according to the manu-facturer. Most of the native grass will grow into an un-mowed meadow, while some parts of it will remain as a path mowed through the garden. It could, however, be kept mowed on an every 10-day basis to provide the more traditional manicured lawn look. With the three alternatives – reducing the footprint, in-stalling subsurface irrigation and using native sod – main-taining a lawn during drought conditions becomes a real option. N


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Using grass like Delta Bluegrass Co. Native Mow Free requires half the water of a normal lawn.


By Tanya KucakSpecial to the Town Crier

One of the new features at this year’s San Francisco Flower & Garden Show included the pho-

to seminars. If you want to share snaps of your garden with distant friends and rela-tives, it helps to understand the 2D world of the camera. Saxon Holt discussed the “medita-tive process of photography” and showed photos to illustrate the six lessons in his e-book “Think Like a Camera.” • Framing. Find stories you like in the garden and frame a picture. “Use all edges of the frame,” Holt rec-ommended. Use elements at the edge of a photo to “keep the eye in the frame so that it

PHOTOS

Shooting in the garden

TANYA KUCAK/SPECIAL TO THE TOWN CRIER

Focus on interesting details, such as the chewed-on petals of this flower or its visitor. Taking a break to look at just one thing is like sitting on a bench in the garden after running around.Continued on Page 18


doesn’t wander off,” he added. An out-of-focus foreground can be a framing device, as can a brighter area in the center of the frame. Light colors draw the eye in. Use a tripod – it will force you to “stop and look through the view-finder,” Holt said. • Focal Point. Find the point of the picture. “Where do you want the view-er’s eye to go?” Holt asked. Use the rule of thirds to make the image more pleasing to view. If you divide a rectangle in thirds in both directions, the intersection of the lines gives you four “sweet spots,” he said. An image placed at these points creates a more harmo-nious composition. But, Holt said, “break all the rules and do crazy things so you learn.” • Leading Lines. To give the viewer a sense of dis-covery, look for pathways and walls in the garden, and use them to guide the viewer’s eye. Placing leading lines

at an angle “pulls the viewer into the picture,” according to Holt.

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Placing the image off-center can result in a more interesting photo. This squirrel was searching for snacks in the middle of Washington, D.C.


• Point of View. What is your story? From what vantage point are you invit-ing the viewer into the gar-den? If you’re not “finding the shot,” Holt said, then change your point of view physically: climb a ladder, or get down to ground level. For instance, look at flowers from ground level, in rela-tionship to the earth, to see the stems. • Space and Shape. What makes a strong photo is how you use space and shape within it, Holt ad-vised. The shapes fit togeth-er like a jigsaw puzzle, mak-ing a harmonious whole, including negative space. • Vignettes and Details. Tell “little stories” by focusing on details, Holt suggested.

Photography using a mobile device Another photographer at the show, David E. Perry,

offered tips for iPhone and iPad photography. Why car-ry around a heavy camera with special lenses, he said,

PHOTOS



Overcast days offer even light, with no shadows. Next best is early morning or late afternoon, when the light isn’t as harsh as in midday. Backlighting and late- afternoon sun can spotlight features such as these native grasses catching the light.



PHOTOS

when you can use the “amazing, always-with-you” camera – assum-ing that you have an iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone – already at hand? A way to hold the device more securely is the most important add-on, he said. Perry recommended the $20 GorillaPod with a GripTight mount for the iPhone, or a $15 Gri-fiti Nootle to attach an iPad. “Fancier ones don’t work as well,” he said of the add-ons. Perry uses an earbud as the cable release. The only add-on lenses worth using (“that aren’t crap,” he said) are made by Moment and cost ap-proximately $100 each. With the 18 mm, photographers can focus 1.5 inches away; the 60 mm is “like a short telephoto,” he added. Perry’s No. 1 favorite app to shoot with is Camera+. He also likes PicsArt (to add effects) and Over (to place text on images). In addition, Photoshop Touch is a $10 app for phones or tablets.

“Start with good pictures,” he said. Tanya Kucak gardens organically. Email her at [email protected]. N



Before you take a photo, think about where you want to focus the viewer’s attention. What is your point of view?


WILD FOODS


L ast year, I ate lots of small, yellow, wild plums from a tree that the birds planted. Like most wild foods,

these olive-size plums were much smaller and less sweet than a cultivated variety, such as the Santa Rosa plum developed by horticulturist Luther Burbank. It took a lot of time to collect them, but they made great desserts. Botanical explorer Joe Simcox would like to see more wild foods developed for the table. In a talk at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show last month, he praised the “hard-won knowledge” of foragers who learned what was edible

Wild foods: A new Age of Discovery


Some species of milkweed flowers are edible. Botanical explorer Joe Simcox advises foragers to be sure to get a positive ID and check references before eating wild plants.Continued on Page 26


WILD FOODS

and the genius of Burbank and Nikolai Vavilov, who also developed improved varieties of food plants. Native Americans ate approximately 3,000 types of plants before the Europeans arrived, he said. Simcox called for more work on plants that grow in the arid west, especially an “oak improvement” project to develop good-tasting varieties as reliable food crops. “The Age of Discovery hasn’t even started,” he said.

Into the wild His whirlwind tour of lesser-known plants that have great potential focused on dryland American plants. Giant sacaton (Sporolobus wrightii), a grass native to dry areas in the Western U.S., was a food plant for Native Americans and “will re-place rice in California’s Central Valley,” Sim-cox said. He’s proposed the idea to Lundberg Family Farms, a big rice grower, because giant sacaton doesn’t require the flood irrigation that rice does. Moreover, he added, it’s a “wonderful grain” with a great flavor that has “twice the nutrition” of grains commonly used.

“If not for the Irish potato (which, by the way, originat-ed in the Andes),” Simcox said, Apios americana would have been “a standard American crop.” Related species are well-known in northern Asia, he said. Also called potato bean or American groundnut, the



It takes too much energy and water to grow corn for biofuel, says botanical explorer Joe Simcox. Instead, he recommends growing agaves in the desert for both food and fuel.


plant offers edible tubers as well as above-ground beans. Most yucca flowers are edible, he said, and were cooked and eaten “like cabbage.” He added that one species of yucca produces deli-cious fruit that, when dry, looks and tastes like little dates. Simcox described visiting a greenhouse full of cacti and tast-ing whichever fruit was ripe, to the amazement of the cactus breeder. Most types of cactus have edible fruit, but it’s not always palatable. He noted that plants such as brome-liads and caladiums have been bred to create more dramatic ornamen-tals. So there’s “lots of potential” to develop some great fruits by cross-breeding cacti, he said. Another desert plant, Lycium ber-landieri, is the “goji berry of America,” Simcox said. Other tasty berry-bearing plants he recommended include salal (Gaultheria shallon) and honeyberry (Lonicera caerulea). Buffalo gourd, Cucurbita foetidissima, is a tap-rooted perennial vine that grows in the desert. Although the ma-ture fruit tastes bitter, its seeds have a pumpkin-seed taste.

A short-lived perennial related to California’s Blazing Star, Mentzelia decapetala, has “sesamelike seeds” that can be parched, ground and used “like tahini,” Simcox added. It’s native to the Rocky Mountains. Tanya Kucak gardens organically. Email her at [email protected]. N

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Native Americans ate seeds from some species of Mentzelia, or Blazing Star. This one, M. lindleyi, is a California native grown as an annual wildflower.


PRUNING


A rboriculture instructor Jocelyn Cohen summarized her pointers for pruning some common native

shrubs – manzanita, ceanothus and toyon – during a presentation at the San Fran-cisco Flower & Garden Show last month. “Be respectful and have fun,” she ad-vised. “Look to nature, mimic nature.” But you can’t always do what nature does itself, she said. Timing is important. For drought-tolerant shrubs adapted to a summer-dry climate, the dormant season is summer. Cool fall nights trigger dormant buds, so the best time to prune is before buds are

Practice prudent pruningMaintaining manzanita, ceanothus and toyon


Shrub manzanitas are known for their sinuous mahogany trunks and branches. If the foliage hides the bark, prune selectively to open the center so that the bark is visible year-round. This Montara manzanita is a mature specimen at an arboretum.Continued on Page 30


set. For best results, prune from late sum-mer to early fall. If you prune after the plant has already put energy into new leaves and buds, it may not have the energy reserves to set new buds, Cohen noted.

Marvelous manzanita The essence of manzanitas is their “gor-geous mahogany bark” 12 months of the year, Cohen said. To show the elegant trunk to best advantage, it’s important to keep the trunk flare – the place where the trunk is a little wider at the base of the plant – clear of duff, weeds and herbaceous plants. Cohen showed before-and-after photos of a well-pruned Sentinel manzanita. Be-fore, it looked like a big shrub covered with leaves. After, the sinuous trunk was visible. “Keep plenty of interior foliage” when you prune, she suggested, and make sure that light can reach the interior foliage so that it stays alive. When a manzanita has lots of dead leaves, you can shake it to clean it out. Not only does it look neater, but this “tickling” also promotes more vigorous growth, Cohen added.

Spectacular ceanothus The essence of ceanothus is its flowers. One of the most common cultivars, Yankee Point, tends to “grow and roll” in a cascading form, Cohen said. She recommended play-ing with the layers to keep the lower layers open to light.

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Ceanothus boasts an abundance of blue flowers in the spring. To keep the shrubs healthy, make sure that light can reach the interior foliage and that cascading stems don’t block the light.


Without any pruning, eventually you could end up with an 8-foot-high plant that has leaves only on the outside layers. “Anything shaded out will die,” she said. “You always want to open it up.” Likewise, if a ceanothus (or an oak or a garrya) is sheared into a hedge, it won’t be able to sustain any inner growth. It may be possible, however, to renovate a sheared plant. Cohen showed an example of a Coast Live Oak that had been shaped like a lollipop on a stick. Over five years, she was able to prune it into a more natural form by gradu-ally opening it up. Most of her work as an aesthetic pruner is “cleaning up people’s bad work,” she said.

Terrific toyon Toyon’s natural tendency is to form multiple trunks. To avoid tons of annual maintenance, remove some ex-tra stems at the base when the plant is young. It’s “three times harder” to remove stems when an overgrown plant is older, Cohen noted. “Don’t leave a stub,” she said. “It doesn’t take any lon-ger to cut it right than to cut it wrong.” If you can’t make a proper cut with a regular pruning saw in tight areas, you’re not using the correct tool, she said. “Get a keyhole saw,” Cohen added. If you prefer a single-trunked toyon, you can choose a single trunk when the plant is young. Although toyon usually has a rounded form, you can also train it against a wall or fence as an espalier. Tanya Kucak gardens organically. Email her at [email protected]. N

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Toyons naturally want to have multiple stems. This one is growing right next to a Coast Live Oak in a natural setting. The red berries make this evergreen stand out in fall and winter.

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