APLD California Chapter

APLD California Chapter Education, Networking, and Advocacy for California Landscape Designers Visit www.apldca.org for more information.

The APLD California Chapter represents 400+ California Landscape Designers, and we are growing fast. With seven districts throughout the state, we offer monthly educational programs and networking opportunities.

Great to see our newest Gold Sponsor Corona Landscape Lighting/Fiat Lux Systems at the FutureScape USA show this week! T...
09/03/2026

Great to see our newest Gold Sponsor Corona Landscape Lighting/Fiat Lux Systems at the FutureScape USA show this week! Thank you Steve for sharing your knowledge with us!

FREE in-person event!Monday, September 14th • 9am-11am 📍Peninsula Building Materials • 6610 Brisa Street Livermore, CA 9...
09/03/2026

FREE in-person event!

Monday, September 14th • 9am-11am

📍Peninsula Building Materials • 6610 Brisa Street Livermore, CA 94550

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Peninsula Building Materials in Livermore—exclusive yard tour!

Start the morning with fresh coffee and pastries before stepping behind the scenes for an exclusive, private tour of Pacific Building Materials’ largest site. Open to designers, students, emerging professionals, and related trades (including construction), this hands-on visit is built to give you the inside track on material selection and project logistics.

What You’ll Learn:

Material Mastery: Get direct, expert advice on which materials perform best under specific project conditions—and what to avoid when the stakes are high.

Seamless Logistics: Learn pro-level tips for ordering, scheduling, and managing deliveries to ensure a smooth, predictable experience for you and your clients.

Behind the Scenes: Explore the true scale and inventory of PBM’s largest location.

Post-Visit Garden Gathering:

After the yard tour, the conversation continues. All attendees are invited back to Deborah Christman’s garden to relax with cool drinks and snacks. We’ll debrief the site visit, trade insights, and talk shop in a beautiful outdoor setting. Sign up using our QR code or use the events and registration link in our bio. 🌱🌱🌱

Enjoy our first featured article in our latest Summer issue of the CLD magazine.In Burbank, designer Laura Morton, APLD,...
08/26/2026

Enjoy our first featured article in our latest Summer issue of the CLD magazine.

In Burbank, designer Laura Morton, APLD, CPLD transformed a neglected 7,800-square-foot lot surrounding a 1935 Spanish Revival home into a joyful, functional garden retreat.

Honoring the property’s mature citrus trees and vintage character, the redesign brings together spaces for barefoot relaxation, outdoor dining, growing food, and drying laundry—while preserving the sense of an abundant, old California garden.

This is a landscape designed not just to look beautiful, but to support everyday living and reconnect its homeowners with the history and spirit of their home.

📍 Los Angeles, CA
Design: Laura Morton Design
Photography: Ross Whitaker

Read the article for free using the link in our bio.

Our Summer 2026 issue is here! 🌞 Outdoor Living: Connection, Comfort, and the California Lifestyle explores how landscap...
08/21/2026

Our Summer 2026 issue is here! 🌞

Outdoor Living: Connection, Comfort, and the California Lifestyle explores how landscape design expands daily life beyond the home’s walls. From welcoming spaces for gathering and entertaining to restorative gardens for recreation, relaxation, and time in nature, this edition celebrates the many ways Californians embrace outdoor living.

Featuring a diverse range of projects and perspectives, the issue highlights how intentional landscape design creates outdoor environments that are comfortable, functional, and deeply connected to their setting. We explore indoor-outdoor living, destination-inspired gardens, and spaces informed by California’s climate, materials, and planting palettes each offering its own interpretation of what makes a landscape feel purposeful, inviting, and distinctly at home in California.

We are also pleased to welcome advertisers to APLD California Magazine for the first time. Their support, together with the continued generosity of our APLD California sponsors, helps us expand this publication, strengthen our professional community, and advance the practice of landscape design. We are grateful for their partnership and delighted to share this latest issue with you.

You can visit our bio to read this new Summer issue. 🌞

Subscribe for free at: https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1732030/7941/

Special thanks to editor Kaitlyn Matousek, you did an amazing job.

What is your favorite flower that blooms through the summer? 💐
07/23/2026

What is your favorite flower that blooms through the summer? 💐

Save the date! The 2026 Bay Area Plant Fair is a few months away and we want to see you there! Come mingle with the many...
07/23/2026

Save the date! The 2026 Bay Area Plant Fair is a few months away and we want to see you there! Come mingle with the many vendors and plant enthusiasts that share your same love for landscape design. This year the event will be held in the Los Altos community center. An eventbrite link will be available soon. Volunteers will be from 11am to 4pm

Join our sponsor Azenco this Wednesday for their free online event!Designing for California: Code, Climate, and Performa...
07/13/2026

Join our sponsor Azenco this Wednesday for their free online event!
Designing for California: Code, Climate, and Performance.
Julie Orr, Waleed Kassab, and Julie Bregen will help us understand wildfire considerations, wind and earthquake engineering, permit considerations, energy and comfort (heaters, fans misters) while sharing the beauty of their pergolas with us. Today, Pergolas by Julie, provides a one stop design/estimation/ installation service to those busy design professionals who want to glean from my years of experience (including all the bloops and blunders) to make sure your shade solution is everything you’ve imagined. You can rest easy knowing that you’re in the hands of experienced landscape designer who knows your concerns. I love making every client’s outdoor living space the favorite part of their home! Waleed brings over 26 years of construction and engineering experience to the outdoor living industry, specializing in the design and delivery of high‑performance pergola systems and modern exterior environments. His background in developing single‑family homes—from land acquisition and entitlement through full construction and final completion—gives him a deep understanding of structural engineering, load management, and long‑term durability. With a strong foundation in budget analysis, market‑driven design, and finish optimization, he consistently creates outdoor spaces that balance aesthetics, performance, and value. Today,he applies this expertise to crafting elevated pergola solutions that enhance architecture, lifestyle, and property value. Julie Bregen is the founder of San Diego Patio Pros and brings more than 30 years of experience in business operations, sales leadership, and customer relations to the outdoor living industry. As the San Diego representative for Azenco Outdoor by Hunter Douglas, she specializes in helping homeowners, designers, architects, and municipalities create durable, low-maintenance outdoor environments that complement Southern California's year-round lifestyle. Sign up under 'events and registration' in our IG bio.

Save the date, for APLD Sacramento's upcoming webinar, Keeping Up: Maintenance and Management of Ecologically Vibrant La...
07/13/2026

Save the date, for APLD Sacramento's upcoming webinar, Keeping Up: Maintenance and Management of Ecologically Vibrant Landscapes- Thursday, August 20th 5:30-7pm. Naturalistic and ecologically rich landscapes may be in high demand but designing them is only the beginning. For landscape designers, the ongoing challenge is ensuring that planting designs can be successfully maintained, evolve over time, and continue to deliver both ecological and aesthetic value.
This webinar explores the often-overlooked relationship between design intent and long-term landscape care. Drawing from national interviews and surveys with landscape professionals, the session examines common barriers to sustaining biodiverse plantings, including limited maintenance capacity, conventional horticultural practices, and gaps between design vision and on-the-ground management.
The session also highlights practical, real-world strategies that are helping bridge these divides, ranging from adaptive maintenance approaches and revised planting strategies to improved client education and stewardship models. Participants will gain actionable insights for designing with maintenance in mind and for creating resilient, naturalistic landscapes that are both ecologically vibrant and realistically maintainable over time.
Attendees will leave with a clearer framework for aligning design decisions with long-term care, supporting landscapes that thrive well beyond installation.
Haven Kiers is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at UC Davis. She received a BA from Brown University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley. Her research examines how sustainable landscapes can be designed, managed, and maintained to support biodiversity, environmental resilience, and human well-being. Working at the intersection of ecology, aesthetics, and stewardship.

Our APLD CA president, Gün Ünsal, of Blue Hibiscus Gardens wrote a new blog post all about why working with a profession...
07/13/2026

Our APLD CA president, Gün Ünsal, of Blue Hibiscus Gardens wrote a new blog post all about why working with a professional landscape designer actually makes a difference (especially here in California).

It’s easy to get inspired by AI renderings or quick design services, but creating a garden that truly works for your space takes more than a pretty concept. In this post, she breaks down how thoughtful planning, understanding microclimates, drainage, plant selection, and local regulations can make or break your outdoor space long-term.

If you’re thinking about upgrading your yard, this is a good place to start.

Read the full blog at our website:
https://apldca.org/%f0%9f%8c%bf-understanding-the-value-of-a-professional-landscape-designer/

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