Beginner Gardening: Considering building a dry creekbed, 0 by TexasLizzy

TexasLizzy wrote:
Waht you saw in the pic I posted yesterday was the walls covered in the backer, but lacking the green or brown coat and then covered in the venetian plaster. Across the top of the columns to create a window to the yard/street was a 4 X 6 cedar column for me to hang a few baskets of plants. Eventually the coins in the brick corners of thehouse exterior will also be skimmed iwht the plaster to unite the entire theme.

Currently we are working to create our own plaster mix (marble chips instead of sand with a correct mix of portland and lime) but have been unsuccessfull. Remember I am from Scotch heritage - and am not afraid of hard work if it will save me $$$. However. our testing has been failures. we will probably break down and spend the $100/bucket of ready to use plaster to skim the final coat.

In front of the DR is an extension of the courtyard, with a partarre in the center. It is too small an area for me to create a knot garden - no room for knots. So I will row out germander and lavendar and fill in the triangles with annual color. The center will include a tall (48") narrow (14") water feature. You can see the basin, which moved up in the rain, in the next picture. As you can see, there is the drama that we were hoping for in the entrance.
I hope that answered your questions.