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"Landscape architect Jarrod Baumann practically skips down the steps of the sprawling hillside garden, pointing out a vibrant mix of flowers near the pool. &#8220;That&#8217;s our little nursery,&#8221; he says. The plants are extras, parked here until he dreams up a home for them elsewhere on the grounds. Baumann looks every bit the young artist&#8212;an apt comparison. &#8220;When you love plants as much as I do, you pull them out like paints, and paint the garden with them.&#8221;Luckily, for this project he got to work with someone equally passionate. Carol Giannandrea, the property&#8217;s owner (with her husband, John), is a plant biologist with a weakness for cactus, succulents, and citrus. She hired Baumann four years ago to convert her country-style garden in Los Gatos, California, into a more modern landscape.&#8220;I didn&#8217;t start with an overall design,&#8221; Baumann says, &#8220;but focused on one area at a time, so Carol could get to know my work.&#8221; Before long, the two were bouncing ideas off each other, Baumann scribbling his on paper napkins out in the garden. The result is a plant playground full of unexpected foliage and flower blends, garden art&#8212;and a little magic.In the pool area, black mondo grass reaches out, spiderlike, from the base of a horsetail &#8220;fence.&#8221; Downslope from the house is a series of terraced gardens, each framed with embossed steel &#8220;wave walls.&#8221; &#8220;My crazy ideas come from everywhere&#8212;jewelry, plants, fashion,&#8221; Baumann says.He even makes a nod to Giannandrea&#8217;s native Scotland: Along a roadside bank, a dry-stacked stone wall juts like a rocky coast into a sea of echeverias. It&#8217;s Baumann&#8217;s gift to the owners&#8212;and to anyone driving down the country road."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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