Bill Schnetz

Bill’s Best: A Top Designer’s Favorite Aloes

by Debra Lee Baldwin April 6, 2018 – Posted in: Succulents

Looking for great succulents for your garden? Plant aloes in well-draining soil and “they’ll soon become your favorite succulents,” says Bill Schnetz, one of Southern CA’s most sought-after landscape designers. Bill uses aloes of all sizes in mild-climate residential gardens. For a natural look, he suggests mixing one or two kinds with tough, drought-tolerant ornamental grasses [...]

Garden Designers Roundtable: The Suggestion of Water

by Debra Lee Baldwin July 26, 2011 – Posted in: Garden Adventures

These vignettes suggest water—flowing, tumbling, cascading, splashing or dripping water—yet there is none. Each illustrates the ingenuity of a garden designer in the dry, hot Southwest, where water is scarce. Yet the same concept, of creating the look of water, might apply to any garden. In this composition, by Akana Designs for the San Diego [...]