by Gardens by Gabriel
MORRO BAY, CA, US 93442 · 81 photos
Lush Los Osos Landscape
http://www.gardensbygabriel.com

Grasses combine to form this coastal eclectic garden space: carex, stipa, pennisetum, and more.

 
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isamenton wrote:
What plants did you use to achieve such a masterpiece? - I believe I recognize some gaura, stipa tenuissima, pennisetum and carex (what varieties?). But I fail identifying the red, purple or orange flowers. Kind regards, »
· Comment · 10 months ago
Ann Atkinson Your design artistry is inspiring! Thanks for sharing such beautiful images. What is the first plant front left - large, toothed foliage?
8 weeks ago ·
Gardens by Gabriel Sonchus canariensis!
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added by Marianne Lipanovich to Lay of the Landscape: Coastal Garden Style
However, if spare isn't really your style, you still have options. This coastal planting bed is filled with color, both from the perennials and the grasses. It's also filled with plants. The overall look is a blend of cottage and traditional, a nice mix for a home garden and certainly up to handling coastal weather.
A joyous celebration of plants — with their unique traits, forms, habits and blooms — adds up to a garden with a charismatic and engaging attitude. Colors may clash for surprisingly successful pairings, like orange and pink or gold and purple. This garden challenges conventions. It is a single composition created by the pairing of exotic and native plants. Carex, Stipa and Pennisetum — carefree ornamental grasses — intermingle with Gaura and kangaroo paw in what some may call "controlled chaos." I call it irresistible.
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Good for farm
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Like the material between stones
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like the different colors and textures and shapes of the grasses
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the grasses and flag stones
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Grasses and mixture of plan things
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beautiful walkthrough, good idea for area between front porch and gate entrance
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Full with grasses, plants, walkway
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Love the look
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Wow. love the texture, and avante guard of this garden!
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nice - but probably more suited to a large space
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eclectic garden space: carex, stipa, pennisetum, and more.”
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Great shapes and feeling of motion
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artichokes?
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like it - would want low-maintence and perennial plantings, with some three-season color
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grasses and flowers and path
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“Carex, Stipa and Pennisetum — carefree ornamental grasses — intermingle with Gaura and kangaroo paw”
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flagstone path
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Nice combination.
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Tall Grasses
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a joyous celebration of plants_all mixed up, lovely
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I like this style landscaping in some places.
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combination of grasses
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Love the swirling grass.
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creeping thyme
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good example of grasses mixed with flowering penstemon, and others
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I love the wild look of this--maybe for the beds around the trees in the backyard?
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Grass
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Love perrenials
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The ground over is nice...
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Grass mixed with perennials.
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the different colors (except not so much the orange). I like the soft bushiness of it. But I think I'd like a more uniform path.
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In the foreground orange flowers are Mimulus, and Heliathemum (sunroses). The sweeping hair-like grass is Carex testacea. The red in the backround are Anigozanthus (kangaroo paw) and the purple pom-poms are verbena lilacina a native of the channel island.
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love this entire feel except for that sweeping grass - love the color too Thanks for the compliments! In the foreground orange flowers are Mimulus, and Heliathemum (sunroses). The sweeping hair-like grass is Carex testacea. The red in the backround are Anigozanthus (kangaroo paw) and the purple pom-poms are verbena lilacina a native of the channel island. pink flowers were Gaura ? Is it Pennisetum on the left of the purple pompoms ?
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All perennials and grasses. Nice.
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Grasses for the yard
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I Like the layering of grasses
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So pretty!
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Casually organized patway.
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limestone walkway in wild flower garden
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