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A Patio Garden James Bowen designed this intimate patio garden built by Bowen Landscape. The screen enclosure protects from insects and filters the sunlight, yet with the view of trees overhead, gives the sense of being outdoors. James selected a craborchard stone for the flooring material. The floor is hard enough for outdoor furniture and is not slick when wet. |
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The garden, though very small, contains a large number of diverse features and plant materials. A Bloodgood Japanese Maple, located in the right edge of the picture, gives red color and height to the garden. The other tall tree is a Majestic Beauty Hawthorn which is covered with pink flowers. Various ferns, groundcover plants and shrubs are used including Lady Palms, dwarf camellias, black mondo grass, holly ferns, strawberry geraniums and variegated Algerian Ivy, variegated flax, coonties, sagos and ajuga. Because this is a small space made to be viewed from a close range, the complexity of plantings adds intimacy. An edging of landscaping timbers, softened by a planting of dwarf mondo, separate the garden from the floor. |
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The small pond and waterfall adds motion and soothing sound to the garden. Water cascades down three feet of limerock and falls into the pond. The pools edge are hidden by rocks giving the impression on a natural spring. Indigenous limerock containing numerous fossils, black Mexican beach pebbles, and flat sandstone decorated the pond's edges. At night, low voltage lights shimmer off the water and silhouette the plants.
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