rural revival
a wide open country setting for a family-focused landscape beside austin's walnut creekPROJECT DETAILS
completed: 2020
budget range: $25,000 – $50,000
design scope: large
continuity: Wildflower Center membership
VEGETATION
canopy: Anacacho bauhinia (BALU), Anacua (EHAN), Texas red oak (QUBU2), Escarpment live oak (QUFU), Lacey oak (QULA), Chinquapin oak (QUMU), Vasey oak (QUVA5)
understory: Mexican redbud (CECAM), Brasilwood (COHO), American smoke tree (COOB2), Texas persimmon (DITE3), Elbow bush (FOPU2), Carolina buckthorn (FRCA13), Possumhaw holly (ILDE), Blanco crabapple (MAIOT8), Agarita (MATR3), Mexican plum (PRME), Fragrant sumac (RHAR4), Flame-leaf sumac (RHLA3), Texas mountain laurel (SOSE3), Mexican buckeye (UNSP), Rusty blackhaw (VIRU)
cactus: Weber’s agave (AGTE7), Texas nolina (NOTE), Spineless prickly pear (OPEL3)
sunny perennials + shrubs: Butterflyweed (ASTU), Winecup (CAIN2), Purple coneflower (ECPU), Kidneywood (EYTE), Texas star hibiscus (HICO2), Indian blanket (GAPU), Texas gayfeather (LIPUM2), Blackfoot daisy (MELE2), Fragrant mimosa (MIBO), Gaura (OELI2), Giant coneflower (RUMA3), Mealy blue sage (SAFA2), Four-nerve daisy (TESCS), Esperanza (TEST), Zexmenia (WEACH)
shady perennials + creek: Yellow columbine (AQCH), American beautyberry (CAAM2), Turk’s cap (MAARD), Rock rose (PALA13), Scarlet sage (SACO5), Cedar sage (SARO3), Texas betony (STCO), Fall aster (SYOB)
bunch grasses: Inland sea oats (CHLA5), Gulf muhly (MUCA2), Big muhly (MULI)
FABRICATION
components: outdoor cooking arrangement, decking, steel edge, irrigation, landform, lighting, lounger, steel + stone patio, vertical screen
living systems: charrito, chisos alpine lounger, hibachito, pecos lounge gravel tops, pedernales picnic set, rift planters
SURFACE
vegetated surface(s): hardwood mulch, wildflower patches, zoysia
functional surface(s): basalt, garapa or ipe hardwood, coarse limestone gravel or finely crushed limestone or flag stones, metal or steel