Garden Exploration: Exuberant Chaos in Healdsburg, California

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Come with us on a tour of a riotous Healdsburg, CA garden, designed by Arterra Landscape Architects. Crammed with raised beds, the garden is tended to fastidiously by the homeowners, who maintain the rambling colorful chaos of flowers and edible plants.

Arterra designed a sturdy hog wire fence and double gate, which keep out deer.

Pink poppies explode against tall grasses.

After poppies drop their petals, you can harvest their pods.

Each poppy pod is like a tiny salt shaker, with holes from which you can shake out dozens of seeds.

Inside the hog wire fence: Purple sweet peas, raised beds, and a clothesline for laundry.

Shrub and climbing roses contribute to the chaos.

An unglazed terra cotta irrigation pot keeps roots moist during the week.

A combination of triangular and rectangular raised beds maximize plant space.

Made of simple wooden boards, the raised beds weather to a silvery gray.

A journal which documents where everything is planted and what performs well is a tool to plan next year's garden design.

Fast friends: Delphinium meets Queen Anne's lace.

A triple bin composter sits in the corner of the garden.

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