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#SidewalkStrip

Some photos of my #SidewalkStrip, between the sidewalk and the road. The south half is pretty well established, though I am still adding things in the bare spots. On the north half, I'm pulling off the landscape fabric I used to kill the well-establish perennial weeds, adding squeegee (the tiny gravel), and starting to add plants. There is a young oak tree on the north half, planted and maintained by the city, so I have to look for plants that can cope with dry shade.
#BloomScrolling #xeriscape

A strip of ground, about 8 feet wide and 20 feet long, framed by street, sidewalk, steps, and driveway, filled with xeriscape plants and rocks.

A pretty xeriscape, full of drought-tolerant native plants and rocks.

The ground between a sidewalk and a city street, steep and about 8 feet wide, covered with squeegee. There are some rocks and plants: penstemons, liatris, bee balm. In the background there is black plastic landscape fabric and the trunk of a young oak tree.

Grass, knautia, and catmint, on the house side of the sidewalk. There is a catalpa tree in the background and a large non-native evergreen on the left of the picture.

My #SidewalkStrip is looking lively!

We got a little rain and a double rainbow.

#gardening #NativePlants #xeriscape #rainbow

A small garden between the sidewalk and the street, filled with rocks and plants. Goldenrod and sunflowers are in bloom.

A double rainbow crosses a gray sky above trees. The very tops of some of the trees are in sunshine.

This is how my #SidewalkStrip looks after four days of 99-103 degrees F. The agastache in the lower right corner is looking stressed, but the garden as a whole is thriving.

#gardening #NativePlants #xeriscaping

A few dozen heat- and drought-tolerant plants, mostly native to Colorado or the region, in the strip between the sidewalk and the street. There is still some bare soil visible, but a lot is mulched with rocks and gravel.

Goldenrod
(Solidago 'Golden Baby')

This is one of the plants I got in a #GardenInABox from #ResourceCentral this spring and planted in my #SidewalkStrip

#BloomScrolling #gardening #NativePlants

A plant with many stems, about 2 feet high. Each stem has many narrow lance-shaped leaves and, at the tip, several long clusters of tiny, bright yellow flowers.

My sidewalk strip. It slopes enough to be hard to mow, back when it was all weeds and weedy grass. I covered it with landscape fabric and added a few plants, planning to add a few more every year, but the landscape fabric disintegrates into plastic shreds. SO after a few years I pulled it up and added a lot of native plants and random rocks.

#gardening #NativePlants #SidewalkStrip #LookAtThisCoolRock

A strip of earth, sloping down from the sidewalk to the street. It has some established plants, some new plants, and some interesting rocks, but is still more than half bare soil.

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