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The proposal for the garden has been driven by the use of Texas Natives

Drought-tolerant, native small trees such as  Vitex tree serve as excellent specimen small trees for any landscape. Flowering species are available in a variety of color and provide easy-care sources of nectar and pollen for native birds and insects.

Native perennials with tubular flowers such as pink Skullcap (Scutellaria suffrutescens) and Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) are favorites of native hummingbirds and bees. Blend a variety of species to extend your bloom season and provide food for an array of native birds and insects.

The use of groundcover plants can often solve many design problems, and do much more than just cover bare ground and be low on maintenance.

Structural planting
In general the proposal stablishes a starting point that provides structure to the garden, which over the time will accept additions and modifications without loosing its spirit.


Gravel and decking surfaces
The path has been slightly changed in order to generate a cleaner line and use gravel as a permeable surface material.  However if desired the project could be build maintaining the existing path and adapting the proposed planting to the existing situation. 
An extension to the porch has been proposed, next to the planting of a small tree for shadow.

Kids safety
In order to provided some security for the kids who will be some of the main users of the garden, the selection of plants have been done accordingly.  
No plants with spikes or thorns have been proposed.
Soft tall grasses are located along the path to delimitate the football playing area from a more relaxing area under the mapple trees.
Mass planting of a single variety of a drought tolerant plant can create a painterly swath of color in the garden. For a romantic combination, combine dwarf yaupon with cherry sculcap, and a silvery perennial grass.

Gravel Ground
The neutral color blends with natural surroundings. It’s a permeable paving material that feels good to walk on–and it captures groundwater.

Celebrate Shade
A tree with a generous, spreading canopy can create a focal point in the garden and provide shade in a sunny, arid climate.
Gravel makes an attractive and permeable roadway for the parking acces.  I order to solve the problems  of poor drainage we are proposing to apply a drainage system that would provide better drainge and permeability of the surface. 

Sudspave Permeable Pavers
Sudspave is a permeable paving grid system of interlocking cellular plastic porous pavers designed for the stabilisation of trafficked grass or gravel surfaces. Used where a free-draining permeable gravel or grass car park, access road or driveway is required.

Sudspave offers a cost-effective, robust and aesthetic solution for many applications where gravel retention is required and where there are problems of poor water drainage. For a reinforced grass surface, the interlocking grass pavers can be filled with a soil rootzone and seeded to produce a reinforced grass surface suitable for vehicles and pedestrian traffic.