love garden

completed: 2019

budget range: $10,000 – $25,000

design scope: large

components: cantilevered bench, cistern, outdoor cooking arrangement, decking, dry creek, steel edge, fence, irrigation, landform, lighting, steel + stone patio, vertical screen

living systems: bouldin creek dining set, chisos alpine lounger, comal planters, hibachito, pecos lounge gravel tops, rift planters, tember planter, xoyl composter

understory: Mexican redbud (CECAM), Mexican olive (COBO2), American smoke tree (COOB2), Texas persimmon (DITE3), Texas mountain laurel (SOSE3), Mexican buckeye (UNSP), Rusty blackhaw (VIRU)

cactus: Weber’s agave (AGTE7), Texas sotol (DATE3), Giant hesperaloe (HEFU2), Red yucca (HEPA8)

sunny perennials + shrubs: Yarrow (ACMI2), Butterflyweed (ASTU), Chocolate daisy (BELY), Winecup (CAIN2), Sacred datura (DAWR2), Silver ponyfoot (DIAR2), Purple coneflower (ECPU), Prairie verbena (GLBI2), Texas star hibiscus (HICO2), Morning glory (IPLI), Blackfoot daisy (MELE2), Fragrant mimosa (MIBO2), Gaura (OELI2), Giant coneflower (RUMA3), Mealy blue sage (SAFA2), Globemallow (SPAM2), Four-nerve daisy (TESCS), Esperanza (TEST), Wooly ironweed (VELI3), Zexmenia (WEACH)

shady perennials + creek: White mistflower (AGHA4), Yellow columbine (AQCH), American beautyberry (CAAM2), Chile pequin (CAAN4), Buttonbrush (CEOC2), Blue boneset/mistflower (COCO13), Day flower (COER), Horsetail (EQHY), Texas lantana (LAUR2), Turk’s cap (MAARD), Rock rose (PALA13), Scarlet sage (SACO5), Dwarf palmetto (SAMI8), Cedar sage (SARO3), Texas betony (STCO), Coralberry (SYOR)

bunch grasses: Sideoats grama (BOCU), Blue grama (BOGR2), Texas sedge (CATE7), Inland sea oats (CHLA5), Gulf muhly (MUCA2), Big muhly (MULI), Mexican wiregrass (NATE3), Little bluestem (SCSC), Indian grass (SONU2)