Billy Goodnick Garden Design

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Billy Goodnick Garden Design
37 Reviews

Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns

Project Year: 2009
Project Cost: $2,501 - $5,000
Country: United States
Zip Code: 93105
Before picture with asphalt driveway, unwanted persimmon tree and stressed lawn.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Before: Tiled steps, dense hedge creates privacy.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
View from top of stairs.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
The new garden is a riot of warm colors and grey. Varying plant forms create contrast and interest even when flowers fade. The existing blood red trumpet vine was given some horticultural love and is the star of the show for months.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Succulents drip from the fountain while cheery yellow acacia and gazania flowers create warm winter color.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Acacia cultriformis (Knifeblade Acacia adds scale to the garden while also increasing privacy from passing cars.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Hot orange African daisy (Arctotis 'Sunshine Orange') and Coral aloe (Aloe striata) play nicely together.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
The year-round cool grey foliage of Acacia cultriformis is smothered by small yellow puffballs in mid-winter, repeated by the African daisies.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Blood red trumpet vine (Distictus buccinatoria) along the garage trellis.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Pork & beans (Sedum rubrotinctum) and blue chalk fingers (Senecio mandralicaea)
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns
Bulbine latifolia, nasturtiums, chalkfingers and Agave 'Nova' have the run of the narrow curbside bed.
Succulents Replace Tiny Terraced Lawns