The Gardener's Drawing Showing the Front Yard Before Any Work Is Done
We ask our friends and neighbors for recommendations for a landscape designer/ contractor to help us install a dry garden in place of the lawn. Finally we find someone and tell him of our ideas: these include a dry wash and a path running diagonally from the areaoutside the front door to the mailbox. He says these can both be incorporated, and tells us that a dry wash is, in fact, essential to take away heavy winter rain that would otherwise have been absorbed by the lawn. A week or two later he delivers a plan. We feel enthusiastic about it, like the landscaper and look forward to dealing with him.
He suggests the following plants:
Nandina
Buddleia
Festuca
Silene
Penisetum Orientale
Thyme 'Pink Chintz'
Ajuga
Acorus Gramineus
Sisyrinchium Bellum (Blue eye grass)
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