These vignettes suggest water—flowing, tumbling, cascading, splashing or dripping water—yet there is none. Each illustrates the ingenuity of a garden designer in the dry, hot Southwest, where water is scarce. Yet the same concept, of creating the look of water, might apply to any garden. In this composition, by Akana Designs for the San Diego [...]
Senecio rowleyanus
Face Pots
August 4, 2010 – Posted in: Garden AdventuresFace pots straddle the line between whimsy and kitsch. I photographed these while working on my last book, Succulent Container Gardens. Two made it into it. So what do you think? Any of these that you would want in your own garden…or that you particularly like or dislike? A hippo’s headress is Kalanchoe beharensis ‘Fang’ and graptopetalums. String of pearls [...]