PUBLISHED Sunset Magazine Northern California Home and Garden Landscaping for Small Spaces (Sunset Publications) Project planning, design and supervision Chris Jacobson, GardenArt Landscape installer Jean Claude Rivalland		Started during the severe drought years of the late 1980s, this was the first Gardenart project to be published. It won the First Place award at the Northern California Xeriscape* Conference in 1989, and then went on to win a second place award from the DIFFA design jury (published in Northern California Home and Garden). Borrowing design ideas from the Arts and Crafts detailing on the rear of the building, the landscape has just a hint of Asian influence, while functioning in much the same way that a Mediterranean garden would. The reconfigured spa and new decking are partially covered with wisteria and jasmine arbors, while the center of the space is given over to a stone glazed ceramic pot that gurgles and overflows into a small pond that has been set into the deck. The plants are a typical Mediterranean mix of flowering vines, fruit trees, and assorted herbs and fragrant flowers. *Xeri is Latin for dry. Xeriscape is a dry climate landscape. DIFFA = Design Industry’s Foundation to Fight AIDS.