L.A. Story: Bold Garden Renovation in Bel Air

A spectacular Bel Air makeover by Mia Lehrer, Alan Bernstein, Tim Parker, and the owner. Jurors praised the seamless marriage of house and garden.

Highlights

• Stone path with creeping thyme leads through a curved wall extending from the interior.
• Sculptural blue-gray and yellow agaves (saved from old garden) echo architecture.
• Low-maintenance blue fescue lawn surrounded by unthirsty plants: agaves, artemisia, feathery cassia, woolly grevillea.
• Back garden: infinity-edge pool and stark paving frame city views.

Designer: Mia Lehrer and Associates, Los Angeles (213/892-0009)