This Spanish Revival home’s front yard is now filled mostly with succulents and cacti plus mostly plastic lawn ornaments everywhere! The basic design unit she uses is a circle within a circle within a circle. Each with its own colors. The basic background is dark red wood mulch. design.
The design of this front garden breaks almost every rule of conventional garden design. The woman who owns this home told me that she decided to take up lawn replacement design on her own. She said she had no art training of any kind, so I have begun to think of her as a self-taught primitive landscape designer, a kind of “Grandma Moses of lawn replacement”. A very weird and whacky Grandma Moses.
I think the blue bottles are from a water brand–maybe? Or maybe wine? She told me she loves butterflies so there are parts of the garden with colorful butterfly ornaments. The tree looks like a Southern California favorite from the tropics: the heavenly fragrant plumeria. To it she has added blue light bulbs as decorations. And there are lots of wind spinners throughout.
The result is astonishing. Unlike anything else in the staid, quiet and very upscale Madison Heights neighborhood of Pasadena. While this garden will not win any awards, I love the crazy whimsy of it all!
The blue bottles are a striking visual element during the day and light up at night along with many other parts of the gardens. Stacked around the edges of the garden are bags of mulch and empty pots, so I think she is not done with her design. Happily, all the plants look alive and thriving
And she even has lights for after dark. That’s a very unusual feature in Pasadena, particularly in this upscale neighborhood.
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