Re: Going dryer, or Garden is a verb

The lawn, to my  eye. seems like the main issue from both a water perspective and a design one. If it was my garden, I'd replace it with decomposed granite and either a formal edible garden with raised beds or borders with mediterranean plants or a combination   (maybe including some fruit trees.)  Rather than being refreshed by a lawn I'd choose a fountain to refresh. Do you use the lawn?

Laura
Los Angeles


On May 16, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Diane Whitehead wrote:

> So - parched or lush?
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> I visited many famous Japanese gardens, and noticed they were not noticeable on the approach.  No purple-leaved trees were visible from the road. The plants were the same as the wild ones of the area.  The difference was in the care - the placement, the pruning.  Japanese gardens were a refinement of the natural.  However, Japan has lots of summer rain, and the gardens were green.
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> I haven't visited gardens in desert areas, but from reading garden history books, it seems that gardens in the Middle East were designed to be a cool, refreshing, moist refuge.
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> I'd stay with what you've got.  If you want parched, you can always walk up that hill behind your lovely garden.
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> Diane Whitehead
> Victoria B.C. Canada
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> On 16-May-10, at 7:07 AM, Ben Wiswall wrote:
>> But now, I wonder if I should lose the roses, and go for a drier, more sage look, something in keeping with the now already beige surrounding hills.  After all, I'm not in France, and the garden looks like an island in the countryside around it.
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