Subdivision: Anasazi Meadows
Owner/ Designer: Michael Payton
Garden Type or Features: rewilding, habitat patch, adaptation, resiliency, biodiversity, hybrid plant communities, landscape ecology, green stormwater infrastructure.
Artist in the Garden: Karen Jacobs
Description: A patch of earth makes a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. This landscape explores the idea of blending the wild and the cultivated, weaving layers of compatible plant species that thrive on a disturbed and degraded site.
The designed plant communities create an environment that reflects natural systems. Zooming in to the micro-level provides habitat that supports many insect species. These hybrid plant communities increase biodiversity and greater ecological function.
The naturalistic planting of this property incorporates green stormwater infrastructure. Other features include a rockery of succulents, a native shrub and grassland, a mosaic slope planting for erosion control and a meadow matrix within a courtyard oasis. Stunning views look beyond the arroyo to a horse ranch and the magnificent Sandias.
The garden is designed and maintained by Michael Payton, landscape designer, arborist and environmental steward of land ethics.
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TREES
Acer grandidentatum –Bigtooth Maple
Chilopsis linearis – Desert Willow
Fraxius velutina ‘Rio Grande’ – Rio Grande Ash
Forestiera neomexicana – New Mexico Olive
Juniperus monosperma – One-Seed Juniper
Pinus edulis –Piñon Pine – Vitex – Chaste Tree
SHRUBS
Atriplex canescens – Fourwing Saltbush
Buddleja – Butterfly Bush
Chamaebatiaria millefolium – Fernbush
Ericameria laricifolia – Turpentine Bush
Ericameria nauseosa – Chamisa
Fallugia paradoxa – Apache Plume
Krascheninnikovia lanata – Winterfat
Lycium pallidum – Wolfberry
Lonicera fragrantissima – Winter Honeysuckle
Mahonia repens – Creeping Mahonia
Parthenium incanum – Mariola
Potentilla fruticosa ‘Hallman Dwarf’ – Shrubby cinquefoil
Rhus trilobata ‘Autumn Amber’ – Creeping Sumac
Salvia greggii – Furman’s Red Salvia
Salvia greggii – Mirage Violet Salvia
Teucrium chamaedrys – Wall Germander
GRASSES
Bouteloua curtipendula
Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’
Blue Grama Grass
Eragrostis trichodes
Sand Lovegrass
Helictrichon sempervirens – Blue oat Grass
Muhlenbergia rigens – Deergrass
Nassella tenuissima – Mexican Feathergrass
Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem
PERENNIALS
Achillea ‘Moonshine’ – Moonshine Yarrow
Achillea ‘Red Velvet’ – Red Velvet Yarrow
Agastache ‘Kudos Mandarin’ – Hummingbird Mint
Agastache neomexicana – New Mexico Hummingbird Mint
Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Golden Queen’ – Golden Columbine
Artemisia frigida – Fringed Sage
Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ – Wormwood
Berlandiera – Chocolate Flower
Coreopsis ‘Mercury Rising’ – Mercury Rising Tickseed
Echinacea purpurea ‘Prima Donna Rose’ – Purple Coneflower
Ephedra equisetina – Bluestem Ephedra
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Ballerina Rose’ – Ballerina Rose Gaura
Geranium ‘Rozanne’ – Rozanne Geranium
Heuchera ‘Caramel’ – Caramel Coral Bells
Heuchera ‘Northern Exposure Red’ – Northern Exposure Red Coral Bells
Heuchera x bryzoides ‘Weston Pink’ – Weston Pink Coral Bells
Linum lewsii – Wild Blue Flax
Mirabilis multiflora – Wild Four o’clock
Penstemon ‘Dark Towers’ – Dark Towers Beardtongue
Penstemon pinifolius – Pineleaf Beardtongue
Ratibida columnifera – Prairie Coneflower
Salvia sylvestris ‘May Night’ – May Night Sage
Scabiosa ‘Butterfly Blue’ – Pincushion Flower
Teucrium canadense – Creeping Germander
CACTI & SUCCULENTS
Echinocereus triglochidiatus – Kingcup Cactus
Hesperaloe parviflora ‘MSWNPERMA’ – Desert Dusk Red Yucca
Hesperaloe parviflora ‘Yellow’ – Yellow Texas Yucca
Hesperaloe parviflora ‘Perpa’ – Brakelights Red Yucca
Opuntia – Prickly Pear Cactus
Sedum ‘Chocolate Fountain’ – Chocolate Fountain Sedum
Sempervivum – Hens & Chicks
Yucca faxoniana – Spanish Dagger Tree Yucca
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