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vertical solutions What options do
you have when faced with a garden not much larger than a closet?
If you are San Francisco garden designer Flora Grubb, you tile it in
slate and add a planting bed, an outdoor bathtub and a vertical garden.
Says Grubb: "It sounds like way too much, doesn't it? And yet
when it was done, I think we accomplished more with this space
than most gardens 10 times the size. It is interesting, peaceful and
endlessly fun to look at."
The concept for the focal point of Grabb's garden was hatched
at her San Francisco nursery and showroom Flora Grubb Gardens.
"The concept of vertical gardening has been creating a huge buzz
around my store. The more that people see images of Patrick
Blanc's work [the French inventor of Le Mur Vegetal, as it is known
Drought-tolerant Sempervivum takes well to the vertical planter. In the bed
below, the foxtail asparagus fern was used to soften the look and give it movement,
while the succulents mixed in pick up colors from the wall garden.
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