Hannah Eubanks, 25, of Design for Serenity (she's Laura Eubanks’ daughter and protégé), undertook a herculean task: creating a 1,750-square-foot succulent display for the Del Mar Fair Flower Show. Hannah transformed ten motor-home-sized parking places (two adjoining exhibit spaces) into an immense, eye-catching, award-winning garden.
Before: This parking area was what Hannah tackled less than a week before opening day. Shade cloth had yet to conceal buildings at right or be installed overhead. Yep, that's it.
Where's the exhibit LOCATED?
When you enter the Fairgrounds go left to enter the Flower Show. Find Hannah's exhibit on the west side facing the east end of the Bing Crosby Hall, adjacent to the SW corner of O'Brien Hall. The Del Mar Fair website gives hours, admission, parking info and more. San Diego County's summer Fair, which averages 1.5 million visitors annually, runs through July 4.
"So many awards!"
The energy at this year's Flower Show award ceremony was palpable as Hannah, her sister Alex and friends awaited results. Over the course of the evening, Hannah, on behalf of exhibit sponsor Grangetto's, won five awards! Fellow designers---now like family---gave a delighted Hannah hugs, high-fives and happy whoops. Parents Laura and Greg Eubanks, away in Northern CA, watched proudly via Alex's texts.
Hannah shows an award the exhibit received from the American Horticultural Society.
What Hannah accomplished
To understand and appreciate the scope of what San Diego's youngest and brightest succulent designer managed to pull off, consider that Hannah…
- did it all on her own during six 10-hour days
- had only occasional hand’s-on help
- moved boulders (ten tons worth, some bathtub-sized) with a rock dolly
- moved dozens of barrel cacti, many weighing more than she does
- coordinated all materials---much of it donated---with nurseries and suppliers
- was given free reign by sponsor Kevin Grangetto of Grangetto’s Farm and Garden Supply
- was invariably cheerful, bubbly, friendly, hardworking and professional (but that’s Hannah).
Bleached and twisted driftwood sourced at Waterwise Botanicals suggests a desert tree's skeleton. From a design standpoint it's in scale with the space, offers contrast of form and a sense of motion, and draws the eye upward.
Links and credits: Who did what
When you support these outstanding businesses, it's a win-win for both you and them.
- Sponsor: Grangetto's Farm and Garden Supply (more about Grangetto's below)
- Design by: Hannah Eubanks of Design for Serenity, her parents' succulent landscape company
- Succulent nurseries: Sun Valley (wholesale), Waterwise Botanicals
- Driftwood: Waterwise Botanicals
- Rock and flagstone pavers: KRC
- Lighting: Hunter Industries FX Luminaire
- Pots and Talavera accents: Planter Paradise, El Cajon
- Raised vegetable beds, trellis, annual flowers: Grangetto's
Details of the display
Don't miss hearing Hannah explain how she handled all this. It's astonishing.
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- Square footage: 1,750
- Boulders: 10 tons
- Gravel topdressing: 6 yards
- Soil: 10 yards
Raised beds (upper right) are among garden accessories sold at Grangetto's. Pots and a Talavera orb are from Planter Paradise in El Cajon. Crushed rock topdressing from KRC is "chamois beige."
About the sponsor: Grangetto's Farm & Garden Supply
The aim of Grangetto's first-ever Del Mar Flower Show exhibit is to make homeowners more aware that the company welcomes and serves residential customers. “Seventy percent of our business is now retail,” says owner Kevin Grangetto. When his father founded it in 1952, the business was primarily an agricultural supplier.
Hannah Eubanks and Kevin Grangetto appeared on KUSI News the day the Fair opened.
A name long respected in San Diego's farm and gardening communities, Grangetto's has locations in Encinitas, Escondido, Valley Center and Fallbrook. I can attest that the staff is friendly and helpful. For over 30 years, I've asked questions and bought supplies at Grangetto’s, just as my dad did long ago for the avocado ranch I grew up on.
After the award ceremony, Kevin told a reporter with KUSI-TV News that Grangetto's offers “everything you need to grow plants: irrigation, fertilizer, tools and more. Everything but the plants, literally." Not surprisingly, Grangetto's has a symbiotic relationship with nurseries, which---as Kevin noted--- "Hannah sourced to create a beautiful display.”
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