San Francisco Chronicle Articles:

Not by color alone - Most gardeners want to plant all their favorite flowers but need to consider more than hue
By M.M. Acosta, 09/21/05

Gardening tips from Suzanne Arca
By M.M. Acosta, 09/21/05


Professional Recognition:
2004 Secret Gardens of the East Bay
Guest Speaker-Container Planting

2004 APLD Award, Best in Category and Best in Show Garden Design, Alameda, Association of Professional Landscape Designers

2004 CLCA Award, Judges Award, Design/Build
Alameda, California Landscape Contactors Association, San Francisco Bay Area East Chapter

2004 Horticultural Advisor and Consultant for the publication of Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates of the San Francisco Bay Region
East Bay Municipal Utility District

2003 Secret Gardens of the East Bay Tour, Designer/Contractor
Residential-Formal Victorian Garden, Alameda, CA

2002 Alameda Garden Club, Designer/Contractor
Residential Garden, Alameda, CA

1999 Moraga Women's Society Holiday Homes Tour, Designer/Contractor
Residential Design-Mediterranean Garden, Moraga, CA

Publications:
2006 Sunset Books: Landscaping with Stone
 By Jeanne Huber and the Editors of Sunset Books,
Menlo Park, CA

2006 Sunset Books: Complete Patio
By Steve Cory and the Editors of Sunset Books,
Menlo Park, CA

2006 Creative Homeowner: Home Landscaping
By Roger Holmes and Lance Walheim

2003 Is Your Garden Going To Pot? Pamphlet
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"Suzanne and her team are a pleasure to work with. Suzanne is an exceptional landscape designer with a sense of design, color and texture that will set your garden apart. Suzanne exemplifies professionalism in all aspects of her work. I've worked with a great many contractors at my home and the work I get the most compliments about is Suzanne Arca's!"

-Dennis Reno

 

 

"Suzanne, your work is fabulous! You really have the vision to turn a small piece of land into glorious outdoor space. Thank you!

-Karen Ward

 

 

 

 



 


"My wife and I chose Suzanne Arca Landscaping over a few competitors because we felt she and her team offered the best balance of high-quality design and reasonable cost while remaining personable and approachable. Our new front garden is both elegant and aesthetically pleasing to the eye while remaining practical and incorporating all of the elements we wanted. In fact, our garden has elicited more positive comments from friends and strangers then we imagined and has added substantially to our home's value in a recent appraisal."

-Rick Benson
 



The landscaping project you did for us is of the most rewarding kind: a lot of payoff for an imperceptible amount of inconvenience and effort. We showed you our uninspiring junipers and requested that you read our minds and give us something we'd like. We are horticultural illiterates and you handled us tactfully and practically, asking questions to elicit opinions we didn't know we had and giving us menus of plants to choose from. The process worked. Every day I come home to a small space containing a marvelous variety of plant shapes, colors and textures, constantly changing. And I always look even when I'm rushing back home with arms full of grocery bags. Jerry and I had thought for a long time that what went on outside our fence was of little concern to us that the important thing was what goes on inside the garden. Those dreary junipers just reinforced that feeling. But our new front garden always makes me glad to come home. I can't wait to see what spring looks like!

-Nancy Falk



 
 
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