Fall 2002 - Harvestman Cove, Northwest Austin

While you are out for a stroll or a trip in the car, visit the Green Garden Award Winning Yard at 7813 Harvestman Cove. You can see many green gardening principles in action, and the result is an aesthetically pleasing yard that will require fewer chemicals and less water to keep it looking beautiful.

This landscape design utilizes graceful beds of native and well-adapted plants. These beds help reduce the total amount of turf area in the front yard, helping to minimize mowing and fertilizer usage.

There is a wonderful diversity of plants in the beds with well-placed natural limestone boulders as focal points.

An assortment of perennials and shrubs included in the new Grow Green Plant Guide are showcased in this yard, including rock rose, rosemary, esperanza, and russian sage, as well as grasses such as mexican feather grass and well-adapted trees such as mountain laurel and live oak.

Drought-tolerant plants and zoysia turf-grass should provide years of trouble-free beauty to the neighborhood, and because this yard will require fewer fertilizers and pesticides to stay healthy, it will contribute to the effort to maintain a clean aquifer.