| I visited your blog, and the one picture I saw looked like a nice garden in coastal California. What is your Sunset Western Garden Book zone? Some of us may not be able to dialogue meaningfully with you because many other areas of the Southwest are going to be much drier, colder, and/or hotter than your garden. On the other hand, many of us are perfectly willing to help, appreciate, or commiserate to your heart's content. I, myself am interested in native plant gardening, but I have such a hard time resisting any plant, native or foreign, that my garden is always on the edge of total chaos! Exclusive native gardens are rare birds here, because our strictly native vegetation around Phoenix, while diverse, is very sere and sparse most of the year. Most of us take a broader view of "native", cherry-picking pretty plants from all over the state, or the greater Southwest.
I wish you welcome, and good fellowship! : ) |
