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Front yard alien landscape ideas - Audrey - love the bright orange-red against the blue-green
Front yard alien landscape ideas - Audrey - aloe bainesii again. i really love these.
Front yard alien landscape ideas - Audrey - pink and purple succulents
Front yard alien landscape ideas - Audrey - euphorbia
Front yard alien landscape ideas - Audrey - Aloe barberae bainesii
Front yard ideas - Audrey - love all the varying colors/textures/heights
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey - Cercidium floridum - Palo Verde Tree - Springtime in the desert - Palo Verde is an extraordinary sight. A cloud of tiny yellow flowers entirely covers the tree till not a single branch is visible. The rest of the year, feathery lime green foliage floats above curved, gnarled trunks, moving in the breeze. Native to southern Mexico, Palo Verde thrives in the desert. Needs almost no water, thrives in extreme heat. Water occasionally (once a month) to keep lush year round. 20' tall and wide. Makes a soft, sculptural focal point for any xeriscaped garden.
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey - Blue Palo Verde - Blue Palo Verde (Cercidium floridum) (medium/large size) This beautiful tree has blue-green bark and foliage, and bears masses of yellow flowers in the spring. The flower show is remarkable, turning the entire canopy into a ball of brilliant yet soft yellow. The leaflets are quite small, and the canopy provides a fairly deep shade, yet lets enough light through to grow most other desert shrubs and perennials beneath. The trunk will go from green to a rough gray with age. The branches often take on rather exotic forms, with interesting curves to strong branches. It reaches a maximum size of about 35 feet wide and 30 tall, and is cold hardy down to about 15 degrees. The tree has a somewhat weeping or down-curving form, and requires some pruning to create a tree that you can walk beneath. It is considered somewhat of a haven for desert birds. It is fairly easy to find at local nurseries.
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey - African Sumac - This tree is native to the arid lands in South Africa. It is a semi-weeping tree with textural bark and often-beautiful form. The bark starts out a light tan-gray in young wood that, with age cracks, revealing reddish hues. Eventually, old wood becomes dark gray and rugged. It is often sold as a single trunk tree, but I much prefer it as a multi-trunk. The form is open and spreading, and branch tips weep gracefully downward. The leaf is composed of three 4" narrow, pointed leaflets. When new leaves first emerge, they look distorted and seem stuck to each other ... this is normal. The flowers are insignificant. The fruit is small yellow to red 'berries', and can be quite annoying over concrete or the like. This species often wants to produce lots of 'water-sprouts', tall, vigorously growing, very straight branches from inside the tree's canopy. These should be pruned out, as well as other structural pruning to enhance and show the trees beautiful structure. However, be careful not to over-prune, by not removing more than 25% total foliage in a year. Over-pruning encourages even more vigorous water-sprout production. This tree can reach mat...
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey - Big Leaf Maple - Big leaf maple, Acer macrophyllum, is a deciduous Tree, to 50 feet, but normally more like 30 feet ,often developing several trunks. Large maple leaves colorful in autumn. Native from Alaska to southern California. These are the yellows and oranges you see on the mountain slopes. A good native tree near lawns, needs lots of water for the first year or so if planted out of its range; in its native range can be drought tolerant. Big leaf maple grows very fast (10 feet in one season is possible), resents interior heat unless the humidity is high. Susceptible to powdery mildew in hot summer, low humidity areas (overhead watering helps to inhibit the mildew. Serpentine tolerant, clay tolerant, not at its best in sandy soils but will survive. Acer macrophyllum tolerates clay, serpentine and seasonal flooding. Acer macrophyllum's foliage turns a different color in the fall and type is deciduous. Acer macrophyllum's flower color is pink.
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey -Western Rosebud - If you love color check out the magenta blossoms of the Western Redbud in the spring. In the fall it delivers yellow and red colors. Not surprisingly hummingbirds and butterflies like it a lot. It’s called a shrub, but it grows about 10 to 20 feet high and about 10-15 feet wide growing at a moderate pace. It prefers partly sunny spots. It can also handle sandy soil.
OTHER TREE IDEAS - Audrey -Catalina Cherry Tree - medium size, native CA, 15-40', white flowers and cherries. Attracts butterflies, birds, and has a nice scent. Leaves are dense for nice shade.
Arbutus tree, native to Canada - recommended by Tom Stout
Arbutus tree - recommended by Tom Stout
Agonis flexuosa aka Willow Myrtle - recommended by Tom Stout
Agonis flexuosa - recommended by Tom Stout
Tristaniopsis laurina - recommended by Tom Stout
Tristania conferta - suggested by Tom Stout
Creek with vegetation (added by Ryan)
Backyard dry creek bed example
Backyard dry creek bed example
Backyard dry creek bed example
Backyard dry creek bed example
Boulder retaining wall example
Boulder retaining wall example
Boulder retaining wall example
Groundcovers between steppers example
Groundcover between steppers example
Stone bridge across water feature
Stone bridge across water feature
Stone bridge across water feature
Flagstone over the water feature
Flagstone over water feature example
Stone bridge over water feature
Water feature fall demonstration
Flagstone bridge over the water feature
Border retaining wall
Border retaining wall example
Water stream example
Edges of the stream example
Groundcovers between pavers
Backyard patio idea
Groundcovers around flagstone pavers
Groundcovers between flagstones
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