The Desert Berm

This no-water garden is specifically designed to embrace Portland's, summer dry winter wet, Mediterranean climate. We were tight on space for this project, so took inspiration from crevice and rock gardening styles, and incorporated a coastal Southern California flare based on our time exploring the mountainsides above Santa Barbara, CA. In time the Arctostaphylos St. Helens at the top of the planting will fill in creating a focal point of mahogany branches and create a functional screen to separate garden spaces.