Influences

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Jennifer Hall Gardens
Mandeville Garden Co
Wabi and a lot of other good garden companies got their start here — respect.
Planet Horticulture
The originators of the Sackhouse Garden, and undisputed heavyweight champs. Mad respect.
Mark Bullwinkle
A charming raconteur and the fabricator of many of the sculptures, gates, handrails, and light fixtures in the Sackhouse Gardens.

Pattern Language
Chris Alexander is somebody who could really use a new website. That said, the author of “A Pattern Language” and “The Nature of Order” has influenced everything Wabi have ever done or tried to do — the entire enterprise would look different were it not
Long Now Foundation
Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin is probably single-handedly responsible for the overuse of COR-TEN steel in higher-end landscapes of the last 10 years. That’s not his fault, though; and the visionary maximalism of his Getty Garden has yet to be digested by anyone in the la

Gladding, McBean
Besides being one of California’s most important producers of clay sewer pipe, Gladding, McBean is a historic ceramic studio, and the fabricators of the architectural ceramic elements found throughout the Sackhouse Gardens.

Sackhouse Gardens
Wabi has had the honor of maintaining and developing this amazing garden, originally the work of Roger Raiche and David McCrory of Planet Horticulture, since 2002.