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Landscape Theme: Drought Tolerant Garden

30 gardens

Backyard Grouping

Back yard grouping

Back yard grouping

Border Garden- Silver Theme

Border along a walkway using a limited color pallet for effect.

Coastal Sun Garden, Craven County

Container Gardens

A container arrangement of petunias, heuchera and cedar.

A container arrangement of petunias, heuchera and skimmia.

A grouping of various plants in different containers.

Tropical epiphytes on a branch affixed to the container.

Container with tropical plants with variegated leaves.

Container with tropical plants and wooden branch with epiphytes.

Container Garden- Succulents

Succulent container garden in mid summer.

Courtyard Entrance Garden

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in spring

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in early summer

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in early summer

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in summer

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in summer (planters)

Courtyard Entrance Garden in Moore County in the summer

Crevice Garden at the Guilford County Extension Center

4 years old in full bloom in the late spring.

Three years old in the late spring.

Crevice Garden in Spring

Crevis Garden Guilford County

Davidson County Demo Garden

Drought Tolerant Rock Garden

A drought tolerant rock garden incorperating Heather

A drought tolerant rock garden incorperating Heather

Dry Rock Stream Garden

Dry Rock Stream Garden

Rock Dry Stream Garden

This is attractive feature year round

Summer foliage frames rock bed

View from walk to home

Dry Rock stream garden

Entryway Garden, Cabarrus County Extension Office

Planting to right of doorway

Left of doorway (after a storm)

Late winter-Early March

Late winter- early March

Foundation Planting- West Side of House

Left of stairs year 3

New plants added year 3

Right of stairs age 3 new plants

Right of stairs year 3

Foundation planting right of stairs

Foundation planting west side of home

Garden Entrance Arch

Garden Entrance Arch

HOA Pollinator Garden

Late summer flowers

Summer blooms- 1 new plant added

Milkweed and parsley host plants early summer

Bee visiting the Agastache

Layout early summer

Back of garden early summer

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Plants along lake wall

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Lake Wall Garden

Native Plant Demonstration Garden All Saints' Episcopal Church

Eastern Swallowtail on Pycnanthemum flexuosum (Mountain Mint)

Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar on Spicebush

Before shrub installation

Church Youth Group installing Eastern White Pine slices for step

Getting the steps seated October 2021

Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden

Paver Pathway

Paver Pathway Garden

Poolside Garden

Hardscape Planting

Poolside garden

Poolside garden

Rock and Crevice Garden

Rock garden ice plant

Verbena & Iceplant

Salvia in Rock Garden

Round Garden Bed

Round garden planting

Round garden planting

Shade Border Garden

Torch Lily in full bloom.

A bench is a perfect place to relax and enjoy the shade.

Sun to Shade Garden

Japanese painted fern 'Silver Falls'

Foliage texture

That was then, this is the before photo of the garden in 2011.

This is the garden 9 years later in 2020.

Tropical Look Garden

Tropical look garden

Tropical look garden

Vegetable Garden and Pollinator Plants

Vegetable garden with pollinator plants

Vegetable garden with pollinator plants

Walkway at the Park, Cabarrus County

Late Nov. and pansies are planted

Mid October blooms

Early Sept. blooms

Early Sept. blooms

Butterfly garden- late spring

Mid-spring blooms

Walkway Garden

Woodland Backyard Garden Walk

woodland garden in winter of arbor

winter and snow in backyard woodland garden in Moore County

2009 fall color in a woodland garden in Moore County.

Garden in summer (August) in Moore County

summer in a backyard woodland garden in Moore County

summer in a backyard woodland garden in Moore County

Xeric Garden

The Xeric garden at the JC Raulston Arboretum.

Xeriscape Garden for a Dry, Sunny Site

Dasylirion sp. sending up an inflorescence.

Sun loving plants