#robert nold

“Dry-climate gardening, if it is too be successful, must not attempt to compensate for “inferior” conditions, such as lack of rainfall, poor souls, excessive wind, too much sun. It should be a liberating act, where the gardener accepts the local conditions, selects plants adapted to the region, and rejects atavistic notions of “soil improvement” left over from agriculture, transforming western gardens into things of uniquely regional beauty, and not into gardens full of plants that look as though they would be happier elsewhere. Soils do not need to be “improved”- the plant choices do.”