Does anyone know if there is a style of landscaping called "Texas Perennial"?
Is there a landscape style called "Texas Perennial"?
Frostweed would say yes!
Ok so what is it? My contractor friend has a client who wants a landscape that is "Texas Perennial" this is thirdhand information from the mouths of two people who don't know plant speak. I'm trying to start a little garden design business but I'm wondering what in the heck he means? Texas natives? Drought tolerant perennials? DG has to know!!
lol - I'd reckon it was really really big perennials...
Not familiar to me, but I'm not the most hip on landscape design trends... Maybe show them some pictures? (Like from the glossy Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso "style" magazines - even if it's not a landscape article or ad, there should be enough background photos that the client could point to the thing they're talking about.)
Hopefully you can talk them into CA natives, with the look and feel of whatever this Texas thing is.
Keep us posted...
ETA: Oh! And don't plant the yucca close to the house 8>)
This message was edited May 8, 2010 9:28 PM
I'm thinking that it's landscaping with perennials, wildflowers, native plants, drought-tolerant, and native grasses. If you inbox Frostweed, she can probably help you.
Maybe it's the shady gardens with the big azaleas?
On second thought, maybe it is what everyone thinks is Texas - desert style?
You would be surprised at how many people think all of Texas is like that.
hmmm.
Yes, when we went to Georgia for a plant swap, I was talking to someone about the Pines and they said, ' there's pines in Texas?' Then I really blow their minds and tell them, it took us ten hours to get here but if we were heading west we would still be in the state of Texas. If we headed to Ca. through El Paso, it would take longer to get to El Paso than to go from El Paso to Ca.
I have never heard it expressed that way, a style of gardening called " Texas Perennial "
But I guess that if you plant a garden with Texas Native Perennials it could be called a
Texas Perennial Garden.
Josephine.
Well googling didn't bring anything up. Oh well I'll post an update when I find anything out thx folks