These are gardens or small sections of gardens, where the request was to minimize the use of water.
Low Water
makes me think of deserts, deserts makes me think of belly dancers.
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I've heard!
(Best viewed if you widen your screen.) Kirby
Designs (650) 949-5078.
This is a small desert floor scape. I used blueish pebbles for the floor with lineation to simulate a stream flowing
around "mountains". The mountains came from my friends at Lyngso, they are green basalt. Rocks are interspersed with succulents.
Los Altos.
This is a border of low water usage plants, Coco palms
with alternate Caeselpinia, Crocosmia are in the background.
Ground
covers are Bocapa close to the fence and
Dymondia in the sunny strip.
A similar border runs along the
other side of the pool.
A sand dune in Palo Alto.
This was a terrace in a sunken patio we call a well. We wanted to minimize the water to this enclosed "planter". We chose
blue/green foliage and a blue pot. We found three dramatic plants: two fan palms and an aloe. Alysum was used to give the
impression of an arid desert floor and lobelia used to accentuate the blue ambience.
Los Altos.
Japanese Blood Grass and Calimagrosti grass, both low water plants. San Mateo.
Rose of Shannon and butterfly bush with grasses in the background. San Mateo.
