Sherie Bolen ’s trial and mistake approach has turn out to work well in her CA garden .
" My approach to maintaining a large garden on California ’s Central Coast ( a few miles inland from Monterey Bay ) is to use plants that require very little care . Research plus the run & error method of take plants that can survive in our Oak Woodlands environment without regular irrigation and no fertilizers has resulted in a garden that has survived during our draw out drought years . A mixture of California native and other plant from Mediterranean climates seems to be influence , and most of the water is supplied by morning time murk rolling in from the bay . A small lawn , recently replaced with drought tolerant Fescue , is the only exception to have veritable but infrequent irrigation . "
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Arbor with ‘Sally Holmes’ rose; Western Bracken Ferns below; Coast Live Oak and Ceanothus ‘Carmel Creeper’ behind
Lavender (Lavandula angustofolia), Phormium ‘Bronze Baby’ and Alstroemeria ‘The Third Harmonic’
Rose arbor with ‘Sally Holmes’ rose, Ceanothus ‘Carmel Creeper’ hedge lines the path, ‘Pink Crystals’ Ruby Grass (Melinus nerviglumis) in front, and Border Collie/Basenji ‘Scully’ surveys her domain
Matilija Poppies (Romneya coulteri) with Coast Live Oak behind the fence
Matilija Poppy closeup
Alstroemeria and Statice (Limonium perezii)
Crocosmia ‘Solfatare’
Bear’s Breeches (Acanthus mollis) at the foreground, Meyer Lemon in the middle, Oak Woodlands beyond the fence
Alstroemeria closeup
Cleveland Sage (Salvia clevelandii ‘Winifred Gilman’)
