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I've relocated to the Grand Rapids metropolitan area! Please feel free to contact me regarding your landscaping and design needs.
	Dan's Landscaping featured on Curb Appeal: Homeowners Gail Kurtz, Norman Bonney, and their daughter Blair lived in a home covered with vines and greenery that they fondly call their "hobbit hole." They were ready to uncover the mass of foliage that keeps the home hidden from view, and open it up to the rest of the neighborhood. Designer Dan Phillips brought creative ideas to suit storybook theme of the project. Some of the highlights include cleaning up the porch, repainting with warm earth tones and installing all new landscaping. Click here for airing times.
	Dan's Landscaping and Design Wins a Silver Medal at the 2004 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show: Blues and black highlight this tropical garden inspired by such diverse elements as Hawaii, David Hockney's California pool paintings, art deco, modernism and primitive art. There is an ambiance of timelessness, elegance and mystery. The monochromatic palette is combined in an exotic, unpredictable way with limes, yellows and other surprises. Trailing plants warm up a corrugated metal wall and a tiled mosaic shimmers behind a 7-foot waterfall. Primitive statues are contrasted with Harry Bertoia's iconic mid-century lounge chairs. The clean simple lines of the hardscape temper the funkiness of the prehistoric looking plant materials. Bi-level pools and the many other blues in the garden tie it all together in a soothing, hypnotic atmosphere. Click here for photos.
	From 7x7SF Magazine (November 2003): In their 2003 Design Issue, Dan Phillips was named one of the up-and-coming designers in SF. Surrounded by what just may be Noe Valley's only flower color wheel, it's easy to understand why Dan Phillips' mood-altering gardens are in high demand. The soothing yet vivid blend of colors, separated from a grassy lawn by spherical flagstones, is an invigorating reminder of how beautiful San Francisco can be. Transforming urban space is this Midwestern transplant's passion. "This city begs to be a garden town," he says. To put if mildly, Philips is attracted to the visual: He describes the cinematography in Hitchcock's Vertigo (which he's seen more than 30 times) as his inspiration, and refers to his aesthetic as "American Comfort Gardens" — Middle America kitsch elevated to elegance. At this year's San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, Phillips took home the bronze for his clever installation, which featured a gleaming Airstream trailer garnished with lilacs. "Gardens shouldn't be pretentious — they should be places to chill out," he says. His philosophy may stem from his grandmother, a Michigan matriarch who evokes garden-related metaphors from her grandson. "She was a real salt-of-the-earth woman," he remembers fondly, "who kept me firmly planted on the ground." — Katy Neusteter