Xeriscape - Drought-Adaptive Horticulture
The Gone Native Drought Adaptive Garden
April 19, 2006
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In the boudoir bed near the house is cooking sage, agave, and nolina microcarpa in the foreground, and beyond is the big beavertail prickly pear in front of the trees around the pond.
Just north of the pond are purple iris, the beavertail, and yucca, all in front chinese pistache, mesquite, and vitex.
The entry road into the grove from the west announces that Gone Native is an “oasis in the desert.”
7 sisters rose blooms for about two weeks in April. In the background are several tree sized mesquites.
April 21, 2006
Beyond the Stachys coccinea is a dry stream bed and a bridge at the head of the streambed. In the streambed spring star flower has been planted.
Creosote bush performs better on berms – in rainy times it dies out in flower shrub beds that hold water. It can be hedged to create a more compact form.
Looking from the pasture towards the grove, mounds of the native groundsel poke through the tawny winter grasses.
At the south side of the south pond is a grove of Chinese Pistache. The railroad tie fence is a favorite lookout perch of Gone Native’s resident roadrunners.
Under a grove of soapberries the introduced south African grass “rescue grass’ provides green winter ground cover.