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Carolyn's Garden |
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Stage 1 (Sept 2008)
was the beginning of the conversion of my front lawn to a front
garden filled with
native shrubs and
perennials. It is
covered with 12 sheets
of wet newspaper and 2
or more inches of cedar
mulch." In Stage 2 (Oct
2008) the path is marked
with stones and the
plants are marked with
rebar. I put socks over
the rebar to keep from
falling over them. |
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In Stage 3 (April 2009)
I began planting native
and adapted plants that
will fill in where the
lawn used to be. The
goal is to have a front
landscape that requires
the least amount of work
once established. |
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After the plants
replaced the markers |
Both sides of the path
with germander
(Teucrium chamaedrys) |
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Surrounding the Chinese pistache (Pistacia
chinensis) is my
collection of
brown-toned carex,
a grass-like member of
the sedge family |
I have
used coralberry (Symphoricarpos
orbiculatus) to fill in
around the yucca
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In front of the yucca is
Prostrate rosemary (Rosmarinus
officinalis 'Lockwood de
Forest')
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Under the live oak are
narrowleaf yucca (Yucca
angustissima) and winter
honeysuckle
(Lonicera fragrantissima) |
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. . . three months later |
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Photos by C Nall |
