At Laguna Honda, we’re new inside & out

At Laguna Honda, we have rebuilt from the ground up to enhance our therapeutic environment. Thanks to the Laguna Honda Foundation, we are renovating much of our landscaping as well.

Wanting to keep our business local, we approached the Department of Environmental Horticulture and Floristry at City College of San Francisco. Through this exciting community partnership, we worked with award-winning student landscape designer John Alexander, who planned and supervised the renovation of twelve garden areas on our 62 acres. Among them is the redesign of our front lawn and its iconic “LHH” topiary. The surrounding community can enjoy this huge expanse which has been beautified with native plants and drought resistant succulents.

John was integral in developing our therapeutic gardens and outdoor planters (pictured) as well as designing and planting the garden in our soaring atrium. Our therapeutic gardens contain raised beds for gardeners who use wheelchairs. Residents will help tend the gardens and assist in various green programs such as propagating new plants.

The atrium plantings feature two 4’x4’ panels with 24 pockets on each side containing a variety of plants that allow for sensory stimulation (pictured). Eventually, residents will be able to enjoy plant and flower clippings in their own rooms, bringing home the sights and smells of the outdoors.

Our community partnership with San Francisco City College has resulted in the flourishing redesign of our campus – just one more way the new LEED-certified Laguna Honda is environmentally aware and therapeutically grounded.