Cargill & Bradley Families Desert Living Courtyard

Cargill & Bradley Families gardens filled with bright colors, refuge with carefully chosen plant rusticated and recycled materials, and material and hardscape symbolizing the Desert Living Courtyard unconventional containers natural environment ! Container Garden – for the ! Outdoor Living Garden – here Located in the homeowner with limited space, architecture and plants combine to create Sonoran Desert, containers provide many alternatives to a sense of place that is informal, one of the most in-ground plantings, including a “potted” comfortable, adapted to our desert botanically water feature! surroundings, and inviting for year-round diverse desert ! Moorish Garden – reflecting the outdoor family living regions of the sensual tranquility of a shaded Moorish- ! Utility Garden – a practical world, Tucson inspired garden laid out around a cooling demonstration of gardening basics from enjoys about fountain in colors of blue, white and tool storage and potting benches, to 350 days of sun a year. The result may be a year- yellow composting and low tech water round growing season, but gardening in Tucson ! Xeriscape Garden – a demonstration harvesting, including a kitchen garden is not quite like gardening anywhere else. The of the classic principles of Xeriscape in a cattle tank desert’s temperature extremes, intense sun, design clearly defining the “zone” minimal rain, and poor soils, all contribute to Designed by concept and blending into the the need for a different approach to landscape Jeffrey Trent, surrounding landscapes design and maintenance. Our unique climate with the expertise means unique gardens. The Desert Living Courtyard ! Wildlife Garden – this boulder-strewn of Tohono Chul displays distinctly different approaches to desert landscape features a shallow Park staff Russ landscape design, offering new and creative ideas “natural” pond, plants have been selected Buhrow, Curator for using water-conserving plants in livable for minimal water use and their of Plants and Lee landscapes. attractiveness to small wildlife Mason, Director ! Dry Shade Garden – for those of General Services, the garden combines color, Divided into ten distinct garden vignettes, gardens with less than abundant texture, and function to provide easily replicated specific areas of the Courtyard feature different sunshine, the spotlight here is on native take-home ideas for outdoor living spaces that southwest regional themes, from the and arid-adapted plants that thrive in encourage us to “garden where we live.” arrangement of cacti, succulents, and annuals in partial or total shade pots that highlight their form and color, to a Visit the Park to ! Winter/Summer Garden – garden “natural” landscape attractive to native wildlife. walk the Courtyard, beds filled with plants that bloom in We also re-interpret the style of historic gardens and log onto our either of Tucson’s most extreme seasons from other places with similar climates, such as website to download – the cold of winter or the heat of the Moorish gardens of old Spain; and re-invent garden descriptions, summer the philosophical character of a Zen garden by layouts, plant lists using native plants to replace traditional, but ! Meditation Garden – inspired by the and resources. exotic species. simplicity of a Zen garden, this smallest of the ten vignettes demonstrates that www.tohonochulpark.org/ ! Barrio Garden – a peek behind the even a tiny space can become a peaceful desertliving.html walls of one of Tucson’s traditional barrio .

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