Landscape Ideas
Create a swale. If rainwater runs off your property too quickly, incorporate a rain garden or a swale. Swales are broad, shallow ditches. They capture water running down a slope, slowing its speed, directing it toward planted areas and allowing it to percolate back into the soil. To keep the swale from looking too stark, add plants along the interior or fill it with rocks to mimic a dry creek bed.
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a moongate when arbor fence doors are closed
overhang
hydrangea border by my wall idea
hummingbirds like moving water
Euphorbia 'Tasmanian Tiger!' the white plant
himalayan birch trees and sedge below
Color in garden
The bubbler rock in this photo is a natural basalt column that has been core-drilled to allow water to spill-out of the top. Our primary suppliers for these fountain kits (bubbler rock, submersible pump, plumbing parts, liner, etc.) are Rock Mountain Products in Western WA, and Tumble Stone in Eastern WA / Northern ID. Depending on where you live, I would search for local rock & landscape suppliers that have retail sales environments.
Add alliums. Light grasses, such as Nassella tenuissima, allow bulbs and other perennials to push up between them and even lend support. Here, floating above the other layers, is one of the tallest alliums: ‘Mount Everest’, a bulb planted in autumn that flowers in June.
third yard
curves, and a bed that comes forward into view
nice gentle slope transition with stairs - low risers
pathway in garden is in Southern California where the soil is clay to begin with. The necesary irrigation falls only on the plantings to conserve water so the native earth needed only a layer of grit added each year to achieve this wonderfully natural pathway.
simple pergola design
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