Like Glamour Magazine’s Fashion DOs and DON’Ts, Gardens are DOs and DON’Ts too.

Gardens I pass in my travels:

GARDEN DOs:

DO: Glorious red/orange Maple and well designed fence.

DO: Grand grasses glowing and blowing in the wind.

DO: Grasses and native plants are drought resistant and save water!

GLAMOUR DON’Ts:

House eating juniper or juniper eating house.

Fence eating juniper or juniper eating fence.

Just don’t juniper!

WHY?

DOs and DON’Ts:

BOUGAINVILLEA:

Beautiful!

DON’T let the trunk or a stem climb behind a drain pipe. It will grow larger and there goes your drain pipe!

 DO: Try a trellis.

DO or DON’T?

ESPALIER TREATMENT OF TREE

Love the espalier, but it’s growing over a window. DO or DON’T?

“Let the sunshine in. Let the sunshine in. Let the sun shine in!” (From the musical, Hair.)

Guess what I think?