Desert Garden Addition

Desert Garden  I have just added a new section to my garden. Now with in my garden I have tropical, rainforest, cottage and coastal garden areas. And now a desert      garden.

Well, it is still establishing, but I have high hopes. This garden patch has been built on a mound of dirt extracted to build our garage. The mound receives more sunlight than the rest of the garden thus the desert garden was inspired.To begin with, the mound needed levelling and terracing to retain the soil. I thought I'd go with a rocky "Australian" look instead of formal rock terracing. I have used logs from the property to retain soil and relocated some lovely rocks to hold the soil and to balance the design of the garden.

The plants have been transplanted from other areas in the garden. Five grasses, two coastal rosemary and two blue iris grasses.  I purchased two tube stock Callistemons, a "pink champagne" and "candy pink"  placed diagonally on either side of the existing Gordonia. The Callistemons were chosen as there are a number of other red and pink Callistemons in the area.To finish the job, I have gathered bags of leaves from the garden and scattered then over the exposed dirt.I will continue to build on this with more rocks, ground covers and I might even try adding some kangaroo paw, which until now thought I didn't have an appropriately sunny spot. 
We will see.