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Garden Ideas from Grow Down
March 26, 2013
— Environmental design, gardening, Tucson Botanical Gardens
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- Design drawing
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- Modern Desert Garden
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- patio setting
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- rock background
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- Drawing
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- contest winner
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- entry
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- garden room
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- fireplace next to couch
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- lounge in garden
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- designer’s card
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- in the garden building
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- view from inside
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- concrete and mud
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- water chain
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- winning water feature
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- metal barbecue
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- tree well planter
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- cactus collection
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- plants hang
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- metal barbecue
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- bright color accents
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- colorful divider
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- patio view
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- blooming cactus
The final installations for the Grow Down design contest are all very impressive. My favorite did not win the official competition, but I still love the water harvesting site built by Realm. Here are the ideas from the other installations not centered around water harvesting and growing food, which is my personal bias.
The three other designs were also innovative and showed new ways to use small spaces to create privacy and shade. The use of metal was popular with all four, but the winner constructed a full on room with a roof, couch and fireplace. The full size tree and the water feature at the entrance clinched the deal with the judges I am sure. The view from the comfy couch is really lovely, and would be great in cool weather with the modern gas fireplace. If you live in Tucson I recommend that you see the grow down installations to pick up some excellent ideas to use at home in your garden. I plan to try a few things I saw today. There are lots of ideas that can be executed on an even smaller scale.
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