>Thanks! Great to see this! I especially like the 'wildness' of parts of the 
>garden, in particular the shrubby, silvery dryland areas with asymetrical 
>expanses of groundcovers. Many gems of plants  in there too!

Asymmetry is what it's all about. (Meaning, I have no sense of design. I just 
start digging.) The front yard, which is not especially photogenic as far as 
what people think photogenic is, has the distinction, if you want to call it 
that, of probably being the driest garden in North America. Not even 3/4 of an 
inch (1.52cm) of precipitation from July 5 to the end of the year, and no 
watering. (No earthworms, either.) Xeriscapers mostly seem to loathe it. The No 
Smoking sign goes up about the middle of July. There's a picture of Penstemon 
grandiflorus growing in the driveway; that's my crevice garden ....


Bob Nold
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