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Gallery 13
Project Details

Homeowners with small front yard on busy street desired year-round hospitality for birds and beneficial insects as well as privacy without closed-in feeling.

Highlights: Classic post-WWII home with original front porch detail inspired new lattice screen to complement and foil street view. Planting choices and re-circulating fountain attract multitude of birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. Interior views from house to inner garden area include seasonal blooms and color changes. Older concrete walkways broken up and reused as pavers set in pebbles, creating a permeable surface through which rain water can soak into soil, eliminating run off to storm drains. Arbor overhanging with native grapevine graces entry and shades front porch. The homeowners and their garden won the city's 22nd Annual Mayor's Beautification Recognition Program Award.

Irrigation: Drip.

Native plants of interest: Blue Elderberry, Leafy Reedgrass, Blue Flax.

Select photos by Chris Rife

Title: Gallery 13

Project Details:

Homeowners with small front yard on busy street desired year-round hospitality for birds and beneficial insects as well as privacy without closed-in feeling.

Highlights: Classic post-WWII home with original front porch detail inspired new lattice screen to complement and foil street view. Planting choices and re-circulating fountain attract multitude of birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. Interior views from house to inner garden area include seasonal blooms and color changes. Older concrete walkways broken up and reused as pavers set in pebbles, creating a permeable surface through which rain water can soak into soil, eliminating run off to storm drains. Arbor overhanging with native grapevine graces entry and shades front porch. The homeowners and their garden won the city's 22nd Annual Mayor's Beautification Recognition Program Award.

Irrigation: Drip.

Native plants of interest: Blue Elderberry, Leafy Reedgrass, Blue Flax.

Select photos by Chris Rife