5. Colorful complement. A home and its garden aren’t always designed with the other in mind, but it can be fun to see when they are. For this renovation project in Manhattan Beach, California, the homeowners did just that. The couple (one is an architect and the other is an interior designer) chose soft, botanical colors for their home’s exterior and worked with landscape architect June Scott to choose plants that would echo and complement these hues. “The plants lead the eye from the home to the garden and back again,” Scott says. Here we see how silver carpet (Dymondia margaretae, zones 9 to 11), a low-growing walkable ground cover planted between the poured concrete pavers, breaks up the paving while tying in with the home’s blue-green paint. Also shown here: foxtail ferns (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Myers’, zones 9 to 11), blue chalk sticks (Senecio cylindricus, zones 10 to 11), tree aeonium succulents (Aeonium arboreum, zones 9 to 10) and leucadendron (Leucadendron ‘Jester’, zones 9 to 10). Exterior paint: Green Blue, Farrow & Ball; door and window trim paint: Meadow View, Benjamin MooreSee more of this low-water beach gardenMoreSo Long, Lawn: 6 Walkable Ground Covers to Consi...
5. Colorful complement. A home and its garden aren’t always designed with the other in mind, but it can be fun to see when they are. For this renovation project in Manhattan Beach, California, the homeowners did just that. The couple (one is an architect and the other is an interior designer) chose soft, botanical colors for their home’s exterior and worked with landscape architect June Scott to choose plants that would echo and complement these hues. “The plants lead the eye from the home to the garden and back again,” Scott says. Here we see how silver carpet (Dymondia margaretae, zones 9 to 11), a low-growing walkable ground cover planted between the poured concrete pavers, breaks up the paving while tying in with the home’s blue-green paint. Also shown here: foxtail ferns (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Myers’, zones 9 to 11), blue chalk sticks (Senecio cylindricus, zones 10 to 11), tree aeonium succulents (Aeonium arboreum, zones 9 to 10) and leucadendron (Leucadendron ‘Jester’, zones 9 to 10). Exterior paint: Green Blue, Farrow & Ball; door and window trim paint: Meadow View, Benjamin MooreSee more of this low-water beach gardenMoreSo Long, Lawn: 6 Walkable Ground Covers to Consi...
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