The Water-Wise Garden: Art of Xeriscaping

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March/April 2008
By Deena Wade 
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The art of the garden

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Contemporary painter James Havard used xeriscape techniques to create a garden abundant in color, texture and shape in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His artwork is known for its lyrical qualities; robust, sensuous colors; and elements of collage and abstract expressionism. Havard brings these qualities to his garden while maintaining the native environment’s integrity; the space exhibits bold contrasts of sharp lines against soft edges, a kind of orderly chaos that invites and enthralls.

Havard intentionally uses the New Mexico sky as an enchanted backdrop. Natural formations and found objects create an interactive, dynamic garden collage along with raised beds, rough-strewn rock walls, ambling paths and intimate nooks that provide places to sit and dream.

Did you know?

There’s a difference between "water-conserving" and "drought-tolerant" plants. Water-conserving plants retain moisture rather than releasing it into the air. Drought-tolerant plants can survive bouts of dry weather.

Resources

Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates by Lauren Springer and Rob Proctor (Fulcrum, 2000)

The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty by Lauren Springer (Fulcrum, 1994)

The Wild Lawn Handbook by Stevie Daniels (MacMillan, 1997)

The Xeriscape Flower Gardener by Jim Knopf (Johnson, 1991)

Xeriscape Gardening: Water Conservation for the American Landscape by Connie Lockhart Ellefson, Thomas Stephens and Doug Welsh (MacMillan, 1992)

Xeriscape Handbook by Gayle Weinstein (Fulcrum, 1999)

Xeriscape Plant Guide from the Denver Water, American Water Works Association (Fulcrum, 1999)

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