YOU
Foss Gardens helps East San Francisco Bay Area homeowners envision and realize timeless gardens that inspire us to attune and connect with the natural beauty that surrounds, renews, and supports us.
Weave this interdependent web between you and the earth, grow your flow of connection, and nurture your intimacy with nature by collaborating with us to create the garden of your dreams.
US
Foss = waterfall in Norwegian. In every garden, we aspire to explicitly or implicitly express the beauty, power and rejuvenating effects of flowing falling waters.
Nature girl to the core, Reka is dedicated to nothing less than crafting the soul of your garden - your outdoor sanctuary for retreat, rest, renewal, connection, play, and celebration, the place where you feel deeply landed and in the flow of belonging with the earth. Years of hands-on work have honed her skill of quietly listening to and learning from the genius loci (spirit of the place), the uniquely individual characteristics of the space, architecture, soil, air, water, and the flora and fauna co-inhabiting and enlivening the outdoor spaces we call “outside”. Reka's decades of work alongside many garden mentors has instilled the osmotic art of the co-creative design process, how architectural style, space and scale form experiencing, of practical problem-solving, risking innovation, the discipline of designing to a budget and other project constraints, grokking your needs and longings, and delivering on your dreams and vision.
CREDENTIALS
California C-27 Landscape Contractor #1134016
Bachelor of Arts, Landscape Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AWARDS
2019 CLCA East Bay, Small Design-Build, First Place “Front Hillside Extravaganza”
2018 CLCA East Bay, Medium Design-Build, Achievement “Modern Family Playspace”
2018 CLCA East Bay, Renovation, Achievement “From Flooding Gully to Contemporary Retreat”
2017 CLCA East Bay, Sustainable Landscape, First Place “Form & Flow: A Creekside Native Rain Garden”
2017 CLCA State Trophy Award, Sustainable Landscape, Outstanding Achievement: “Form & Flow: A Creekside Native Rain Garden”
2016 CLCA East Bay, Medium Design-Build, First Place “Petanque, anyone?”