Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden in Southern California?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Photo #2: Our backyard is divided into two halves, and as you can see our property is also sloped (good drainage, LOL!). Here's a photo from our upper patio, looking down into the lower patio that was just put in last year. This photo was taken in May 2006 and looks directly East. You can see how large the Artemisia "Powis Castle" has grown from a modest 1 gallon container in less than a year. Because the maple (foreground) and walnut (background) are deciduous, in winter these beds get whatever sun is shining. In summer, however, this Artemisia gets exactly 1/2 hr of direct sun, and bright shade the remainder.