I noticed the part along the sidewalk, I guess that is the front garden you mean? that was one of my favourite parts!
Plenty of earthworms here, of their own volition, and not nearly so dry (I measured today, and snow cover right now varies from 12-16inches in open places) but my infant garden includes a number of areas where native vegetation has been allowed to grow around stumps of trees that have been cut over the years; my idea of gardening (for these areas) is to connect some of these stumps/tufts and add a few exotics or near natives to the selfsown things... Probably no garden tours will be knocking on my gate ;) Cohan West Central Alberta, Canada, Zone 2-3 record temps from 10-20 miles away: min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:27 PM, penstemon <[email protected]> wrote: > >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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