Walk through the garden doorway into a world of calm
and beauty.
This
do-it-yourself garden is about five years old. The owners replaced lawn in their
front and back yards with a combination of drought-tolerant plants and trees
native to Australia and California. As a result of these changes, the owners
now enjoy a plethora of humming birds and bees—they love rosemary flowers.
The solid
concrete driveway is also gone, replaced with pavers interspersed with pebbles
to reduce rainwater runoff to storm drains.
Gone
also are the sprinklers. A targeted drip watering system has lowered their monthly
water consumption by more than half!
