Anyone with some links to pics with a great Xeriscape/Arid landscaping?

George Washington Smith’s Lotusland

nice!

Another home by the same architect.

Wallace Neff’s 1924 Ojai ranch house recently purchased by Reese Witherspoon. Xeriscape throughout except for the lawn. She loves horses and dogs the rustic and natural design compliment her lifestyle.

Could be dramatic with colors. Rock Rose and Cactii are quite striking during their bloom.

BK,
  Yep, I agree, my old house(s) in Tucson and Phoenix were studies in Xeriscape… some were studies in ZERO-scape (ha ha).  Gotta love the pebbles and rock landscape….  Keeping the weeds at bay was a chore.  My only thoughs are to keep with indiginous flora.  I’m partial to cacti since I have the black thumb curse….
I could probably kill a rock if I tried.
-bix

biscuitninja - 27 August 2008 02:07 PM

BK,
  Yep, I agree, my old house(s) in Tucson and Phoenix were studies in Xeriscape… some were studies in ZERO-scape (ha ha).  Gotta love the pebbles and rock landscape….  Keeping the weeds at bay was a chore.  My only thoughs are to keep with indiginous flora.  I’m partial to cacti since I have the black thumb curse….
I could probably kill a rock if I tried.
-bix

Try Zen rockscape. You can’t screw up raking the gravels. Do you see the dying rock? The composition is a poetic expression of a black thumb gardner who kills everything.

How can you keep a 7 yrs odl from ruining the pattern on the gravels?  I guess I am not going to practice Zen any time soon.