Evolution of a Garden Border
An editor for a magazine that published an article on our garden several years ago described it as "an unusual garden." This struck me as not an insult per se, but perhaps uninformed. Do I need to defend my plant choices? Does it have to be what your magazine considers a "usual" garden? I think the comment was directed primarily at my plant palette. Mostly dry loving plants, no boxwood hedge parterres or floriferous herbaceous borders here, though I do admire the look. No, ours is a low-maintenance dry garden rich in drought-adapted plants. Low maintenance for its size, that is if it were a typical 50' x 100' urban lot it would be really low maintenance. Nothing is low maintenance on two acres. Maybe a better description would be "a bit wild." Whatever one's definition, we continue to garden with drought-adapted plants. That leads me to today's post about what we call the south bank. As its name suggests, it's the southern most border ...
