This is an example of a southwestern landscaping in Phoenix.

This bed along the south side of the house is outside of the master bedroom suite and gets a decent amount of shade. We wanted some low plantings. The owner was very keen on populating the garden when native plants collected from the property. In this case we actually collected all of the ferns in this bed from their larger property. It has been amazing to watch how many stowaways on our native transplants have come in including some Jack-in-the-Pulpit. I have also added some bloodroot which was harvested at another location.

Photo: Joshua Mayer, via Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic