San Antonio Botanical Garden's new exhibit shows area homeowners how they can have a lush water-saving garden that's more than cacti and rocks.
Yucca plants shine in the bright morning sun in the San Antonio Botanical Garden's WaterSaver Garden.There’s nothing wrong with mixing plants of many colors — reds and yellows with blues and purples. But the WaterSaver Garden vividly demonstrates the power of grouping by temperature.
While you can choose your garden’s color palette at your favorite nursery, the WaterSaver Garden shows how they’ll blend when fully grown. Who knew, for example, that the salmon pink of a coral honeysuckle and the hot red of the galeana sage would go so well together?With a large bur oak and an old desert willow already on the site, the garden has several areas of dense shade. So Fromme planted shade-loving plants such as blue plumbago, pink turk’s cap and firecracker fern.
And for something completely different, white flowering plants like white plumbago really pop in the shade.Color isn’t the only way to arrange plants. Juxtaposing plants with different textures, such as spiky agave against salvia’s purple spires, or a wispy, cascading firecracker plant against the fanlike fronds of a windmill palm makes for a dramatic contrast that heightens the effect of both. And you can combine more than two.
There's always something of interest in the bejeweled lawn. Currently, ruby crystal grasses have sent up delicate flowers that, once they fade, will be replaced by oxblood lilies which, in turn, will be followed by hurricane lilies, named because they pop up in the fall during hurricane season.Plants, like actors, can be cast to play different roles at different times of the year, ensuring there’s never a dull moment.
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