Designing Your New California Garden: 11. Creating a Design Plan, part 3

Last month we discussed several ArtisticPrinciples (Elements of Design); tricks of the trade for designing a morepleasing garden.  If you didn’t read lastmonth’s post, take the time to read it now: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2014/07/designing-your-new-california-garden-11.html This month we consider additional design principlesand create a preliminary...

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Plant of the Month (August) : Catalina silverlace – Constancea (Eriophyllum) nevinii

Catalina silverlace (Constancea (Eriophyllum) nevinii; yellow flowers)Mother Nature's BackyardLastmonth we featured one of our loveliest silvery foliage plants – Perityle incana.  This month the whitest of them all, Catalinasilverlace (Nevin's Wooly Sunflower), is blooming for the first time.  It simply begged us to be featured as ourPlant of the Month.  Like...

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