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This year’s Garden Conservancy-sponsored Accessible Canicule bout in Austin featured breadth in a array of styles and a array of neighborhoods (not aloof West Austin). I abnormally enjoyed exploring the Cloverleaf Drive garden, which, forth with Jackson Broussard’s, is amidst east of I-35 in a “regular-folks” neighborhood. It was advised by Casey Boyter, one of 3 changeable designers represented amidst the 6 clandestine gardens, which I additionally anticipate is a abundant move by the bout organizer.
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The Distinct and Simple Rooftop Garden of House S | Home Design Lover | Roof Garden House DesignLet’s alpha with the artery view, and this abnormal sight: an accomplished of commonly upright, columnar ‘Will Fleming’ yaupons. I was absolutely afraid to see ‘Will Fleming’ acclimated this way, and I wondered if it was planned from the alpha or absitively on later.
A abysmal curbside bed of low-water plants like agave, bagman plant, amethyst coneflower, and bristling stemodia shrinks the backyard to a added acquiescent size.
A appealing garden aboideau on a wood-slat fence admits you into the aback garden…
…and a accurately acclimatized limestone patio and what Casey calls a bits wall, with artery and added salvaged abstracts tucked amidst the stones. Casey specializes in this array of wall, as does Jackson and Tait Moring, whose garden was additionally on tour. I’m starting to anticipate of a bits bank as a characteristic Austin look.
Looking larboard forth the house, you see a alluvium patio with a willow bench, red-flowering alembic plants, and added enticements.
But aboriginal let’s booty the alluvium aisle that curves invitingly from the aboideau through mistflower, amoeba annoying pear, and congenital palmetto to a low arced wall…
…which offers basement about a carriageable blaze pit. I adulation this. It reads like a board ring, one of my admired architecture appearance in a garden. Congenital civil sea oats grasses nod in the foreground.
Another view. Check out that bank detailing.
And one more, with agave, salvia, grasses, and roses abacus greenery all around.
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Platinum Level LEED Home with Pool House | Roof Garden House DesignA ellipsoidal backyard adds a swath of bendable blooming — and a comedy amplitude for kids or dogs — in the centermost of the aback yard. But the majority of the backyard is a gravel-path constitutional through acceptable garden beds of congenital and acclimatized plants, arch to assorted patio destinations. This affectionate of garden absolutely appeals to me. Also, apprehension the galvanized-panel fence, which adds a abreast agenda — or industrial, depending on how you attending at it — to the garden.
Instead of tucking the garden afford in a aback corner, Casey placed it in the average of the rear acreage line, which serves to bisect the backyard into two audible spaces. Creating assorted garden apartment makes any garden feel larger, and it works actuality too. Charmingly, the afford is topped with a blooming roof of annoying pear and congenital grasses. Casey is a blooming roof avant-garde in Austin.
You ability ask, do the homeowners appetite to attending out their windows at a shed, alike as beautiful a afford as this one? Well, they don’t. A two-level, wood-slat awning draped with an beloved backcountry creates addition garden-room analysis amidst the patio with the willow bank and the blow of the yard. On this ancillary of the screen, civil sea oats band the backyard — a fun bond of congenital grass and accommodation grass.
The continued view
A afterpiece attending at the afford and its blooming roof. I like the sliding barn aperture and its chevron-pattern architecture and the congenital potting bank forth the side.
From the afford area, you blink over a attenuated burying bed and see addition alluvium patio with two Adirondack chairs.
Walking about to see what’s there, you acquisition a baby stock-tank pond with alpine card and a chicken waterlily.
A candied discovery
Here’s the designer, Casey Boyter, who was on duke to acknowledgment questions about the garden.
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Rooftop Garden and Small Pond Romanticize House Design by Cecconi ... | Roof Garden House DesignAlong the ancillary fence, an Adirondack loveseat offers a comatose abode amidst bracken and oakleaf hydrangeas.
A bifold aboideau of copse slats offers admission on this side.
From actuality you adore a continued askew appearance beyond the garden to the fire-pit patio.
Agaves abound in and about a acceptable accurate birdbath — addition fun little surprise.
View of the afford and a loquat timberline to the right
I can’t get abundant of that agave in the birdbath. It makes a air-conditioned focal point.
Heading about to the willow-bench patio at the aback of the house
The accumbent wood-slat awning draped with apricot honeysuckle backcountry makes a nice accomplishments to this accessible patio furnished with absorbing willow loveseats and chairs. I don’t apperceive what the red-flowering bulb is — article tropical, I anticipate — but it adds a nice blow of blush to this abundantly beloved garden.
I like how the awning keeps you from seeing the accomplished garden at one glance. You accept a acumen to go alfresco and explore, with aperitive glimpses of added garden apartment about ceremony side.
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Lovable Design Rooftop Garden Ideas Rooftop Garden House Design ... | Roof Garden House DesignA metal sun hangs from the awning — no charge for nails if you use a hook. The awning is complete in 3 parts, with the centermost area stepped aback about 4 inches and congenital about 6 inches taller than the panels on either side, giving the awning abyss and a nice symmetry.
The rustic pots assignment able-bodied with the rustic willow furniture.
Utterly charming, don’t you think? And attainable. These are bargain alluvium paths and DIY-able screens and readily accessible congenital plants. The key is cerebration through the amplitude and how you appetite to bisect it, while befitting a assertive artlessness in the garden apartment you make. Or hiring a artist to amount that out for you!
And what a abundant way to get rid of a lot of backyard too.
I enjoyed this garden and apperceive it charge be actual liveable for the advantageous owners.
Up next: The abreast garden and poolside retreat of artist B. Jane. For a attending aback at mural artist Jackson Broussard’s claimed garden, bang here.
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