Michael Glassman is an award winning landscape designer and owner of one of Northern California's most prestigious design firms. With more than thirty years in landscape design, waterworks, and creative elements that enhance outdoor living environments, he spent two years as co-host and designer of Discovery Home Channel's series "Garden Police."
Michael's work has been the subject of nearly fifty Sunset Magazine feature articles. He has also been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking with Paula Dean, This Old House Magazine, Garden Design, Backyard Designs, and Landscape Architecture. One of his outdoor kitchen's was the cover feature of August 2009 K+BB magazine. His sustainable landscaping ideas have been featured on CNN's Glenn Beck Show. He has been the spokesperson for the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) and honored three times by the American Horticultural Society, which selected his gardens to be on their tours in Northern California. Part environmental evangelist, part landscape design coach and connoisseur, Michael regularly appeared on HGTVs Gardening by the Yard with Paul James. His pool designs were featured on a HGTV special Spectacular Pools. He won the second best outdoor kitchen design in the nation on HGTV Sizzling Outdoor Kitchens and 8th best backyard landscape design on Bodacious Backyards.
Michael's landscape design solutions and philosophies were the subject of Gaining Ground by Maureen Gilmour, with whom he co-authored Waterworks. His other books, Garden Getaways: Havens at Home and Outdoor Designs for Living, can be purchased through this website.
Michael's clients are always amazed by his expert vision in unifying the interiors and exteriors of their homes, while finding beauty in their natural outdoor settings that are coaxed by his creativity into works of art.
He recieved his degree in Landscape Design and Horticulture from the University of California at Davis and studied at LaNapoule Art Foundation in Southern France.
