{"id":4881,"date":"2010-06-21T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2010-06-21T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T00:08:44","slug":"second-nature-garden-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4881","title":{"rendered":"Second Nature Garden Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>MB Maher paid a visit to the home of Southern California landscape designer Dustin Gimbel of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/dustingimbel\/iWeb\/Site\/Home.html\">Second Nature Garden Design,<\/a> as part of an ongoing series of photographic house calls to landscape designers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7209-106.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7209-106.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dustin has an amazingly stellar background in horticulture, including stints working with John Greenlee, at Heronswood, Great Dixter, and taking a diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society&#8217;s main garden at Wisley (or &#8220;Wizzers&#8221; as the locals call it).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7234-117.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7234-117.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7200-103.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7200-103.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His recently purchased home serves as both nursery and design laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7212-109.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7212-109.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7223-114.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7223-114.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=_MG_7220-112.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/_MG_7220-112.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually bought plants from Dustin when he was no more than a kid working at the late Mary Lou Heard&#8217;s wonderful nursery in Westminster, California, over a decade ago, and even then it was obvious that this was a person clearly besotted with plants.<\/big>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MB Maher paid a visit to the home of Southern California landscape designer Dustin Gimbel of Second Nature Garden Design, as part of an ongoing series of photographic house calls to landscape designers. 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