WHEN not IF you give up on your small patch of portland lawn. This is what your landscape might look like. A group of plants matched to a them- in this case drought tolerance. With a mix of evergreen and perennial, a mix of flower vs foliage and simple and easy maintenance.
For small yards and isolated lawn patches, this treatment is perfect. Saves you from hauling a mower to a small patch of grass, saves water and looks nicer. Because we’re us, we added this wall to level out the planting bed and show off a nice wall product as the first impression of the home. A cedar screen makes the front porch a little more private for hanging out or hiding packages from pirates. What else could we have added?
What would I have done differently? Maybe bigger landscape boulders to show through the plants now that they are full grown. They looked big when the plants were tiny!
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tell the truth would you rather spend your weekends mowing a lawn or just looking out over your perennial drought tolerant plants as hummingbirds and butterflies come and visit cuz that’s what uh he’s dealing with here this is a cleanup that we do once a year that’s about all the work this yard takes we have specific drip irrigation on each plant so we’re not watering the weeds or wasting any water beautiful native manzanita here and we just prune this to be airy to show off the exfoliated bark we have armisia extremely drought tolerant a few conifers and then wispy little flowers that poke up through people are scared of the word buckthornne but this is the fine line non-invasive buckthornne that does great for drought tolerance it’s really popular around Idaho I noticed and I think it’ll be gaining popularity here in the Portland area as well so all these plants will attract some pollinators so about 4 years on this is what it looks like this was just a sloped little yard before we added this Ashlar tandem wall by Belgard just to give a little architectural feature in Portland that has to be set back a foot from the sidewalk here for pedestrian safety this is what you look up at as you walk past on the sidewalk really beautiful project 4 years on plants have filled out we did a screen on the front porch with off with fencing a lot nicer than a lawn and I think this is a breadandbut curb appeal landscape makeover that people all around Portland will be making once they see their water bills
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