By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

A nice, shaggy native meadow with skyscrapers nearby?  Where the heck is this, you might ask?  And I'd ask, too, if I hadn't seen it myself.

This tiny meadow is in Venice.  It's the roof top portion of the garden Jeff Pervorse of Bent Grass Landscape Architecture designed I posted about yesterday.  This green roof looks out at the city and down on a second-story deck off the clients' master bedroom. 

It is planted with Mokelumne fescue (F. occidentalis) and Agrostis pallens, a native bent grass, plus beach primrose (Camissonia cheiranthifolia.).

Can you imagine how much fun it would be to stand here at twilight and watch the city lights come on from an insect's point of view?

Since you can barely see the garden in the shot I posted earlier, let's zoom in on it.