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August 21, 2007
I'm Going to Plant Cacti and Lay Pretty Gravel..
..and call it a day. Once every few years during my childhood, we'd drive to Phoenix (from, and back to, Virginia) for the Winter holidays, as my grandfather retired from the USAF at Luke, and he and my grandmother stayed around.
Back then, not very many folks (at least around their neighborhood) watered and kept a lawn. Instead, they would spread colorful pebbles of volcanic and other types of stone into more or less aesthetically pleasing patterns, and would accent the gravel with indigenous plantings.
With the way the weather's been, and looks to be for yet a while here, I think I have a new plan for our yard. Something's got to hold down the dust.
Nature | By joe lance | 06:31 PM