wicked green

Here’s a picture I took at the Cuyamaca Water Conservation Garden. It’s a demonstration garden for low water use plants at Cuyamaca Community College in Rancho San Diego. Definitely worth checking out if you’re in that area. The Euphorbia ‘Sticks on Fire’ and Twin Flowered Agave (detailed info in previous posts) work really well together [...]

Olea europaea ‘Little Ollie’ aka  Olive This is the olive tree’s cute little cousin (even the name is cute). I love the color and loose shape to this shrub, though it’s still a solid mass of that great gray/green foliage. It makes a great backdrop to plants with foliage or blooms in the purple/ maroon [...]

I have talked to several people who have visions of gravel and cacti when they hear “drought tolerant” , “low water use”, or “xeriscape” (some think this is zero-scape and I see the logic but it’s derived from the greek word xeros, meaning dry). But there are a lot of attractive plants out there that don’t need large amounts of water. There are plants that are native and therefore drought tolerant and even a few of these are quite attractive.