In the heart of San Jose, a weedy lot and an abandoned bungalow have been transformed into a stunning Asian-inspired nursery filled with succulents, California natives and drought tolerant plants.

It took owner and landscape designer Thai Pham and his extended family just 45 days to lays tons of pea gravel, repaint the bungalow, build a tea house and open Green Design Plants and Potteries to the public. The nursery on Meridian Avenue in San Jose, near Auzerais, opened earlier this spring. It’s the second Green Design for Pham, who opened a mostly indoor plantscape on The Alameda last year.

Pham, a Vietnam native and UC Berkeley graduate who  designed the landscape for the Buddhist Temple on McLaughlin Avenue, handpicked each plant for the nursery.

Enter through a tall arbor flanked by orchid-filled urns and feast your eyes on lush greenery, bamboo and buddhas. It feels more like a garden than a nursery. And you might just want to take a seat in the tea house, and sit a spell.

Green Design Plants & Potteries, 415 Meridian Ave., San Jose, open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. 408.289.1900.

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