New Tillandsia Garden at Ritual

This is a new Tillandsia garden that is currently hanging in the Ritual Roasters on Valencia Street.

Moss work

This is a detail of a moss garden I did a few months ago.

Vertical Gardens in the press

The vertical gardens I installed with Flora Grubb are in Sunset and Garden Design magazines this month.

This is the Bardessono Hotel Tillandsia Garden

Vertical Garden in Napa

Here is a vertical garden I installed recently. The frame is made of dried liana.

Bardessono Hotel Vertical Garden

This is a vertical Tillandsia garden I installed in collaboration with Flora Grubb and Seth Boor. There was a story about it in the New York Times.

SmithBuilt’s collaboration process inspires one-of-a-kind results. Most recently, SmithBuilt collaborated to create a “green” art installation as the main feature of the lobby at the The Bardessono hotel in Napa Valley. SmithBuilt created and installed a vertical garden on the hotel’s main entrance walls using Tillandsia, “air” plants which need little to no water. The project was lauded in the New York Times as “a striking substitute for wasteful displays of cut flowers” that has the effect of “a Victorian collector’s cabinet of curiosities” full of “abstracted sea creatures.” SmithBuilt worked with Flora Grubb of Flora Grubb Gardens and Seth Boor of Boor Bridges Architecture to conceive and build the garden.

This recent collaboration is one of many, that you can read about here.