![]() ![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Which one of the landscape areas above do you like best? I would hope to be able to do this next winter, but we will see… Of course, the entire project hinges on having enough money for large containers, big boulders, trees, plants, dirt for mounds and paying someone to rip out our grass. I have my drafting supplies ready to go once I am. I am still in the “designing inside my mind” stage, but will soon need to put things down on paper. Young palo verde tree with potted artichoke agave. This area needs to be pruned once every 2 years. Goodding’s verbena, chuparosa and brittlebush blooming with creosote bush in the background.ĭesert ruellia provides an attractive background for golden barrel cacti. Mexican bird-of-paradise, trained as trees are growing in the background. A hedgehog cactus grows by a large boulder. ![]() Red flowering Chuparosa, growing underneath native mesquite and foothills palo verde trees. I have quite a few pictures that I have taken of landscapes that inspire me. Whenever I see a landscape area that I like, I stop to take a picture. I have some concrete ideas, but there is still a lot to be decided. Often, on my way home from a landscape consult, I will mentally design my new backyard garden. I would have loved to have taken out the grass years ago, but my husband and son protested since they would throw the football back and forth each evening before dinner.īut, now my son is almost 12 and often throws the football over the wall, so now I have been give permission to at least start thinking of converting the backyard. Right now, it has a large area of grass surrounded by large, flowering shrubs against the wall. I have been dreaming of converting our backyard into a beautiful, low-maintenance desert landscape. ![]()
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