Venice garden patio Spring 2008

Some clean-up, organic fertilizer and a few new plants help transform the patio of our 100 year old beach cottage in Venice California. Culinary herbs are integrated with flowering annuals and perennials. Peppermint is growing out of a crack in the concrete. This is our outdoor living room spring - fall. View looking northwest.

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ktiggie1 says:

Well, well Robert, the patio cleans up nicely. Looks like the view from the garden swing in the corner. You are continuing in the same vein you started last year. Even more spectacular in July, when everything will be in bloom. To think a couple years ago, this area looked like a nuclear waste dump. Nice job!
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ccindigirard says:

Looks beautiful!!!!
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just_ginge2007 says:

beautiful. What is the blue flower hanging over the top left corner of the photo?
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

mondomuse says:

Hey Ginge, that blue flower is the South African native Plumbago auriculata. It is a large, rangy shrub, but with some grooming can be grown as a vine. Very common plant along the freeways here in Los Angeles; very drought tolerant too, I rarely water mine.
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gardenwiseguy says:

Robert - I see your patio slab is in a bit of distress. If you're really feeling ambitious, you can break it into large slabs the size of flagstone, reset it on a washed sand base, and put the pieces back down (stained and flipped over often looks very nice) with larger gaps for herbaceous ground covers. That will make the surface more permeable and keep the water from running off. The amusing name coined for this great reuse of concrete is "urbanite".
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arrowlakelass says:

What a transformation--you built your own paradise! Let the world on the other side of the fence go its own way. Gardenwiseguy has an excellent idea, less going into the landfill and a nice finished product as I see it in my mind's eye.
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