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📍Placer County, Ca
Tropical oasis in Northern California
I’ll share a few of the plants used in this this build
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1 - Spanish Lavender
One of my favorite flowering shrubs for adding color and fragrance. It blooms for months with purple flowers and attracts bees and butterflies while staying relatively low maintenance. Super draught tolerant
2 - Kangaroo Paw
A unique Australian native known for its vibrant flowers and long bloom season. Hummingbirds love it, and it adds a bold pop of color that stands out from typical landscape plants. Funky cool plant
3 - Lomandra ‘Platinum Beauty’
A tough, drought-tolerant grass that adds soft texture and movement to the landscape. It stays clean, looks great year-round, and handles both heat and cold with very little upkeep. If you suck at keeping plants alive, try this.
4 - King Palm
A fast-growing palm with a smooth trunk and lush tropical appearance. It brings a resort-style feel to the landscape without taking up a ton of space.
5 - Date Palm
A classic statement palm that instantly creates a grand, resort-like look. Its massive canopy and iconic trunk make it a focal point in any landscape.
6 - Queen Palm
One of the most popular palms for adding a tropical vibe. Its graceful, arching fronds create movement and shade while giving the yard a relaxed, vacation feel.
Maybe they just grow differently in SoCal 🤷🏻♂️
Some of my goto plants in California zone 9b
Acacia ‘cousin it’- lacy/flowey plant. Grows to be 6-8’ wide. Only 18” tall or so. One of my top 5 favorites
Carolina/cherry laurel - great privacy hedge. Hedge it into a formal hedge or leave it a little more natural. Berries are toxic to dogs, so be mindful.
Kangaroo paw - funky plant with year round color
Myoporium - great low fast growing ground cover. Only 4-6” tall and 8” wide. Pretty flowers in the spring.
What are some of your goto plants?
Mexican pebble instead of poly sand?
The plan was to use poly, but we had issues the last time we did it, so we are considering alternatives.
The Mexican pebble will over better drainage and looks better (imo)
However, unless we stabilize it somehow, there is more risk of washout.
What do you think?
Is that tree dead?
An easy way to tell is to scrape the branches with your finger nail.
If you see green, it’s alive.
If it’s brown, it’s dead.
Just be careful, just because one branch is dead, it doesn’t mean the whole tree is.
Plants = therapy
I love Maples 🍁
There are hundreds of varieties and they are mostly good.
My only complaint is that they are deciduous which means they lose their leaves. However, with them losing leaves you get the benefit of different colors over the different seasons.
Generally speaking Japanese Maples need afternoon shade in our hot climate.
However, if they are babies when they are young, they can tolerate full sun. All of the maples in this yard are pretty much full sun.
In the heat of summer the lace leaf burns a bit, but it’s established enough that it doesn’t get beat up too bad.
2 rules for rocks between steppers
1) 4” Max space between steppers. The rocks are an aesthetic detail, not the walking surface. Keeping the detail slim makes the path safer and more comfortable to walk on.
2) keep the rocks below the steppers. People don’t pick up their feet every high when they walk. If the rocks are higher than the steppers they will be kicked and it’s annoying.
These rocks here are 2” black Mexican pebble btw
California zone 9b
This yard is just now crossing the 1 year mark from it being a blank slate.
It’s filling in quite nicely.
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