What These Two Extremes Has To Offer, Then Join A Common Ground
The limits of a plot of the average city can confuse gardeners ardent collectors, most obsessive of those who never tire of adding new plants in your garden. Believe me, I speak from experience. The challenge of finding the right place in which each new discovery can flourish and the desire for a garden that seems coherent and intelligent for creating a slippery slope that drops sharply into madness after gardening.
The limits of a plot of the average city can confuse gardeners ardent collectors, most obsessive of those who never tire of adding new plants in your garden. Believe me, I speak from experience. The challenge of finding the right place in which each new discovery can flourish and the desire for a garden that seems coherent and intelligent for creating a slippery slope that drops sharply into madness after gardening.
Each garden has varied growing conditions, some of which are difficult and others that offer extraordinary opportunities. In the above, the dry climate of Denver, Colorado, where garden, intense sunlight and low humidity is the norm in a sunny southern exposure, you can create conditions similar to those found in the extreme regions of New Mexico or Arizona. However, a shadow on the north side, took a bit of compost and moisture additional support from cold weather plants such as Japanese maples (Acer palmatum cvs *., Fortaleza USDA Zones 5-8), ferns and hostas (Hosta spp. cvs., zones 3-9).
I like the different mood created by the palette of plants suitable for each exposure. Sunlight allows me to be bold. Shadow allows me a softer feel. Between the two areas, which join the ends with a central and echoing the other two spaces.
Make A Statement In The Sun
To strong sunlight is a normal state of things has a lot of my backyard. Fortunately, there are a lot of plants that love full sun than I could ever fit in my garden, which gives me a number to choose. This part of the properties of the heat-love, worship of the sun plants and flowers lush daring forms.
The points of Spanish bayonet (Yucca faxoniana, Zones 6-11) and other Yuccas catch your interest, while supporting players, such as California poppies (Eschscholzia californica and cvs., An) and many native penstemon (Penstemon spp . And CVS., Zones 3-10) and sages (Salvia spp. cvs., zones 5-11), decorative sculptural forms, adds color all summer.
Mulch slag, a lava rock gravel pumicelike, keep the crowns of desert plants, dry and extreme temperatures moderate. It also keeps the surface of the earth, open and receptive to little rainfall or irrigation.
I do most of the places in full sun. Stone patio, for example, although the shade of an umbrella in the summer heat, is a welcome opportunity to enjoy the sun in winter, when the flow in a small corner. Placing large boulders to suck the day the heat is another way to exploit full exposure. Radiation of heat and rocks to give away during the night, offers freeze protection for plants tucked into the cracks along the base, which can grow plants less resistant. While the rest of the snow remains for weeks, there is always melts away in a few hours or days. This part of the garden is also the place where I step in my collection of succulent plants in pots of race.
Create A Counterpoint To The Cool Shade
The points of Spanish bayonet (Yucca faxoniana, Zones 6-11) and other Yuccas catch your interest, while supporting players, such as California poppies (Eschscholzia californica and cvs., An) and many native penstemon (Penstemon spp . And CVS., Zones 3-10) and sages (Salvia spp. cvs., zones 5-11), decorative sculptural forms, adds color all summer.
Mulch slag, a lava rock gravel pumicelike, keep the crowns of desert plants, dry and extreme temperatures moderate. It also keeps the surface of the earth, open and receptive to little rainfall or irrigation.
I do most of the places in full sun. Stone patio, for example, although the shade of an umbrella in the summer heat, is a welcome opportunity to enjoy the sun in winter, when the flow in a small corner. Placing large boulders to suck the day the heat is another way to exploit full exposure. Radiation of heat and rocks to give away during the night, offers freeze protection for plants tucked into the cracks along the base, which can grow plants less resistant. While the rest of the snow remains for weeks, there is always melts away in a few hours or days. This part of the garden is also the place where I step in my collection of succulent plants in pots of race.
Create A Counterpoint To The Cool Shade
Even a small amount of shade can change everything. No peaks of more fraught, as the delicate foliage and flowers provide a relaxing counterpoint to the sun-filled garden with the slope to the north, while the sun peering through deciduous trees in my neighbor hit this part of my garden at an oblique angle, keeping the soil constantly fresh by the end of spring. Bloomers principles appear later in the spring beyond random freezes are common to the region. This allows me, once again, to expand my palette of plants and create a different atmosphere in my landscape.
In the shade garden, I use organic mulch of compost, leaves, bark and decaying to enrich the soil and help retain moisture. Leave bags provided by generous neighbors, are filled with a few pauses in autumn and spring, will add organic matter. This makes it possible to grow shade lovers, Woodland plants in our native clay soils.
The result is a series of sheltered pockets full of plants for the garden to remember the Pacific Northwest. The projected path in the forest, this area leads to a cool, shaded, ideal for a living, who calls you out of the heat of summer.
A Happy Medium Offers The Best Of Both Worlds
In the shade garden, I use organic mulch of compost, leaves, bark and decaying to enrich the soil and help retain moisture. Leave bags provided by generous neighbors, are filled with a few pauses in autumn and spring, will add organic matter. This makes it possible to grow shade lovers, Woodland plants in our native clay soils.
The result is a series of sheltered pockets full of plants for the garden to remember the Pacific Northwest. The projected path in the forest, this area leads to a cool, shaded, ideal for a living, who calls you out of the heat of summer.
A Happy Medium Offers The Best Of Both Worlds
The different looks and sunny areas and shaded, it can be difficult to connect in a coherent landscape. I combine these two extremes, with an average plant offers flexible forms of echo, textures or colors to create a continuity and a dominant feature to complete the design.
The key to a successful transition zone is its ability to support a wide range of garden plants that joins the related surrounding areas. The bold contours Kniphofia (Kniphofia spp. Sa., Zones 5-9) and variegated iris ('Variegata' Iris pallida, Zones 4-9) echo the thorny plants in the hot side. Similarly, the dark green leaves Rocky Mountain Penstemon (Penstemon strictus, Zones 3-8), consistent with the selection more difficult in the shade nearby, while the flower spikes link penstemon who love to increase increase heat. Red tile paths provide a unifying element that share the desert hardscape sculpture to the left, a series of lush green elements on the right track, and both sets along a stream between the two.
The key to a successful transition zone is its ability to support a wide range of garden plants that joins the related surrounding areas. The bold contours Kniphofia (Kniphofia spp. Sa., Zones 5-9) and variegated iris ('Variegata' Iris pallida, Zones 4-9) echo the thorny plants in the hot side. Similarly, the dark green leaves Rocky Mountain Penstemon (Penstemon strictus, Zones 3-8), consistent with the selection more difficult in the shade nearby, while the flower spikes link penstemon who love to increase increase heat. Red tile paths provide a unifying element that share the desert hardscape sculpture to the left, a series of lush green elements on the right track, and both sets along a stream between the two.
