Sara Bendrick, the first female landscape host for HGTV and DIY Network’s and Chief Designer of Sarita Landscape Design, is converting the backyard into something functional and utterly beautiful. Her television show, I Hate My Yard, empowers homeowners to grab their home-design by the balls and tackle projects on their own.
Sara creates an oasis and retreat for every homeowner and the roaming eyes of passersby. Her vision is to merge communities with a functional purpose using bikeways, community parks, and design to draw people close to their community and to encourage them to do it together. Before this green thumbed beauty was making trails in television, she got her start by studying Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Bendrick shares, “I wasn’t always clear on what I wanted to be, until one day I came across a flyer that described landscape design. Once I read it, I knew that is exactly what I needed to do. I loved art and nature and this career gave me the opportunity to combine both my passions!”
As a child, Sara loved being outdoors and would spend her afternoons roaming through local parks. She would return hours later with a new collection of grass, flowers, rocks, leaves and smudges of dirt on her face. Her hours were spent carefully scathing the earth’s surface to find something just right. She uses the same meticulous approach with her client's, paying attention to the subtle beauty that transforms spaces, most recently a commissioned mosaic at Roosevelt Middle School. Sara chooses San Diego over every other city, because of its potential and her ability to influence its aesthetic development.
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“Being a landscape designer you assume the responsibility of representing everything from your client, your vision, and things that can’t represent themselves like flora and fauna. It is the great combination of these things that give me inspiration and keep me excited to invest myself in this profession. “
You can witness Ms. Bendrick’s knack for nature first hand this coming spring on the DIY Network.
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Sara Bendrick’s Feature is Part of the collaborative photography project, 7 Badass Business Women In San Diego. This feature was styled and written by Skyler McCurine of Le Red Balloon and hair/makeup/portraits done by Jennie J Sullins of Beauty Hive Studios. San Diego is home to some truly incredible female entrepreneurs. Each woman in our series is a change agent in their specific industry, breaking down barriers and changing the perception of what it means to be a female entrepreneur.
