A garden made modern in Laguna Niguel

Just posted: a garden tour with landscape designers Annemarie and Matthew Hall, pictured with son Ethan, 9, and dog Ozzy at their ever-changing Laguna Niguel home. As Emily Young reports, "The Halls’ personal landscape doubles as a professional laboratory, a place to test the ideas they suggest to clients."

Among those experiments: horse-feeding troughs deployed as planters, raised vegetable beds in place of the front lawn, and a mix of ornamentals, edibles and furniture that has evolved from Mediterranean in spirit to something that's more contemporary and eclectic but still sensible. See it all here.

-- Craig Nakano

Photo credit: Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times