{"id":34700,"date":"2012-11-02T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34700"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T16:57:40","slug":"driveby-garden-11212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34700","title":{"rendered":"driveby garden 11\/2\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Bicycling past this house a couple days ago, I made a hard U-turn to check out the swath of silvery groundcover running alongside the sidewalk underplanting a couple shrubs.  It&#8217;s probably a variety of Gazania rigens.  As an inveterate plant collector who tends to overly complicate things, I love to see simple ideas executed so well.  (<em>See<\/em> and admire them, not necessarily live with them.  I&#8217;d probably require extensive psychoanalysis if I couldn&#8217;t continually mess around and complicate things in the garden.)<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013521.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parking the bike is when I noticed the nice detail of the two mustard-colored, square ceramic containers holding a collection of various orbs flanking the pathway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013510.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flagstone\/decomposed granite pathway runs through what would traditionally be the front lawn, bisecting the silvery gazanias adjacent to the sidewalk on one side and low-lying grasses and other ground covers adjacent to the house on the other side, taking one to the main front walkway.  This is a corner lot, which allows for lots of scope to build up the simple rhythm of rivers of silver, shrubs, and a couple small crepe myrtle trees on either side of the front walkway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013511.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shrubs underplanted with gazania might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=1049\">Melaleuca nesophila<\/a>.  Further down can be seen the bark of crepe myrtles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013516.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large pots planted with succulents including Kalanchoe luciae and Senecio radicans, flank the steps to the front door.<br \/>\nThe container harmonizes with the beautiful bark of the crepe myrtle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013498.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That same day, at a different house, I found a parkway squared away with Dymondia margaretae and succulents.  Marty has complained bitterly about the feather grass (Stipa tenuissima) I&#8217;ve planted in our parkway, whose seedheads completely engulf and attach to lower legs exiting cars.  Clever seed dispersal tactic, but really annoying when you&#8217;re dressed for work.  The gazania or dymondia are definitely being considered as replacements, but the dymondia has the edge since it can tolerate light foot traffic.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bicycling past this house a couple days ago, I made a hard U-turn to check out the swath of silvery groundcover running alongside the sidewalk underplanting a couple shrubs. It&#8217;s probably a variety of Gazania rigens. 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