Trevor Paque at work in San Francisco in a garden his company planted in a client's backyard.

Both the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the Grow Your Own trend for the higher end. This is great--hopefully city gardeners can switch from selling clients annual flowers to annual vegetables. Then just do a little perennial planting around the beds to attract pollinators and it's so easy being green.

In the article A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss , people in the San Francisco Bay area hire local gardeners to tend their backyard beds, as well as owning shares of cows in their region. They wrote: "Call them the lazy locavores -- city dwellers who insist on eating food grown close to home but have no inclination to get their hands dirty."

A blueprint that inspired Rick Norling's garden in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., was based in part on the gardens at the palace of Versailles in France.

In an article in The Wall Street Journal Real Estate blog, Ellen Gamerman wrote in her article,
The Vegetable Patch Goes Luxe

"Some people are paying tens of thousands of dollars to have landscape architects design and install elaborate vegetable gardens. These homeowners regard their plots as edible showplaces, where they take guests on tours of manicured beds of baby bok choy and Japonica maize the way others show off their koi ponds and rose bushes."