Come along on a visit to a residential garden in La Costa, CA that won the district's WaterSmart Landscape Contest!
You'll enjoy seeing (and getting ideas from) courtyard and street-side gardens that showcase owners' Bob and Melanie Buck's skills, aesthetics, and style.
Before its extensive renovation, their yard had "large grassy areas and messy pine trees that dropped pollen and cones everywhere," Mel recalls. Now it's an eye-catching, colorful, easy-care mix of succulents and tropicals.
Not only does Mel share great gardening tips, you'll view before-and-after photos of how she and Bob remodeled and cleverly blended their home's indoor-outdoor living spaces.
FIND OUT...
~How the couple cut their water bill in half
~Smart ways Mel combines small succulents
~How and why to use a stucco wall as a garden backdrop
~What Mel does with agave pups 😳 (It's shocking.)
~Why she keeps a "problematical" 4-foot-diameter foxtail fern
~Mel's clever way to cultivate and display air plants
~How she amends the garden's slow-draining, nutrient-poor soil.
Do go to the CORRESPONDING PAGE on my site for more info and a gallery of 30 of the garden's plants: https://debraleebaldwin.com/succulent-landscape/award-winning-waterwise-garden/
Have a question on ANYTHING to do with succulents? Go to https://debraleebaldwin.com and browse the menu or use the Search bar.
My site is not monetized---no annoying pop-up ads. It's my gift to my followers and the culmination of my career as a horticulturist/photojournalist specializing in succulents. You'll find 100+ pages of tips and ideas; thousands of photos and must-know facts for specific varieties; curated design ideas for gardens, landscapes and containers; interviews with experts; seasonal info; and much more. Use the site as a research tool that also is entertaining---the same goal as my YouTube channel. Q's welcome!
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ABOUT DEBRA
Award-winning garden photojournalist and bestselling author Debra Lee Baldwin shares her expertise about “plants that drink responsibly” in print, photos, videos and her “Celebrating the Joy of Succulents” newsletter. Debra is based in Southern California, home to more succulent specialty nurseries and growers than anywhere else in the world.
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