AZ Garden Tour Scene

Think outside of the box for garden art accents in your garden beds or outdoor rooms!

AZ Garden Tour Wicking Beds

One of the gardens featured an interesting concept in raised gardening beds by introduced us to "Wicking Bed" Gardening.  The crops we saw were impressive, primarily veggies.

The frame is to support shade cloth during the extremely hot summer months!

Click here to learn more about Wicking Beds

AZ Garden Tour

We saw several examples of comfortable seating areas in shade to part shade spots that also provided a splash of color to those areas!  Gee, a good book and cold drink would be ideal to take to these spots for some quiet moments?

Az Garden Tour Water Feature

The sounds of water flowing over the art backdrop was soothing to hear! A great artistic way to add sound and movement to a calming yet refreshing scene.

AZ Garden Tour planter

This lovely planter used  a basket as the pot and added calming blue flowers with green and chartruse glass art for a charming accent. and excitement.

I like using baskets as planters.  Usually I line the basket with lawn fabric to hold the soil in while providing excellent drainage.  You just need to be aware to set the basket on something that will allow water to flow thru.  When I spray the basket with a clear finish before planting in it, I can usually use the basket three years as it ages slowly then and just looks a bit more rustic each year.

Lady Banks Rose

Absolutely breath taking when you see one for the first time!

However, it is only zoned for 6-9, which leaves us northern gardeners envying the southern gardeners!  We saw several on our AZ Garden Tour this year!

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT LADY BANKS ROSES CLICK HERE

AZ Garden Tour first stop!

Our tour this year began at a local elementary school and left us all wishing our northern school year could include a growing season to teach the students to appreciate our earth.  
This was the best school garden project I have seen!  All raised beds, plants featured included vegetables and plants to attract Monarch Butterflies and colorful Art created by the kids!  The plants were so healthy!