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| The "Before" picture. Note the oak leaves, which stain the surface. And one lone succulent. |
We have a new deck surface that's water-tight, but the pale gray is turning out to show the dirt. Jerry had suggested brown --always his favorite because it IS the color of dirt--but, no. My sister-the-designer said it "would look like Bakersfield." Also, none of the possible browns went with the house color. Time to introduce some plants of the the lowest maintenance possible variety.
TC Donovan, the landscape designer who works with us, suggested we try succulents in containers. NEW containers, she stressed. Not the old, salt-stained pots abandoned down the side of the house. Today was my day to research all that.
Step 1: Went online. Got a 30% off coupon for Pottery & Beyond in Emeryville. Will drag Jerry there tomorrow.
Step 2: Googled "succulents in containers." Came up with Succulent Container Gardens, by Debra Lee Baldwin. Ran down to Fourth Street to Builders Booksource and bought it. Marveled at the plentiful parking there on a weekday morning.
Step 3: Studied the book. Stuck many Post-its to pages with photos of things I like. Here are some of them, starting with a Sedum sieboldii:
The purple sheen of an aeonium
Sea lavender with Echeveria agavoides and trailing Lotus berthelotii
A palette of succulents
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