Mediterranean-Inspired Patio Of An Arizona Abode

The corten steel fire bowl by FireFeatures provides elemental eye candy. The Vignelli bench is from 2Modern. Screening the area with fringes of green are a white oleander shrub (in the foreground of the bed) and Indian laurel hedge (at the back). Says Parker: “I live by a philosophy of Ellen Biddle Shipman, a landscape architect from the turn of the last century: Something is not a garden unless it is enclosed.”