Southern California Garden Design: Combating Coastal Gloom with Color

Lynne Blackman's Del Mar garden transformation began with "beach murk"—overcast days that "suck all the color from the garden." She stripped vegetation from a wall (keeping bougainvillea vines), painted it bright acid yellow (Antebellum from Frazee Paint), installed a serpentine blue fescue ribbon edged with a smooth-stone mosaic, and glazed the stones plum red (Plummit from Frazee Paint, thinned with water).