Dave started a garden border in front of the house. He installed leftover tile pieces in a concrete base to create a flat planting area for some xeriscape plants.
![Forming the planter](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_2707.jpeg?resize=640%2C480&quality=89&ssl=1)
He leveled the tops of the tile pieces and filled the area in with dirt.
![Along front patio](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_2706.jpeg?resize=640%2C853&quality=89&ssl=1)
He researched the xeriscape plants that were low growing and like full sun at the Denver Botanic Garden annual plant sale.
A couple of the varieties were already sold out even though we shopped during the member early sale. These were the varieties that he wanted.
Pussytoes |
Wine Cups sold out |
Evening primrose (spotted and big fruit) |
Blue Buckle Penstemon |
Purple prairie clover |
Blue Flax |
Globe mallow sold out |
Wallflower |
Silky Phacelia |
Aspen Fleabane |
Showy Fleabane |
Sand Sage sold out |
Wellington form buckwheat cushion |
With some substitutes we still bought 12 varieties.
![Spotted Evening Primrose](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Spotted-Evening-Primrose.jpg?resize=640%2C471&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Pussytoes](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pussytoesJT.jpg?resize=600%2C607&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Mules Ears Wildflower](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Mules-Ears-Wildflower.gif?resize=449%2C449&ssl=1)
![Wright's Buckwheat](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Eriogonum-wrightii-buckwheat.jpg?resize=330%2C220&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Silky Phaecelia](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Silky-Phaecelia.jpg?resize=640%2C427&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Penstemen Blue Buckle](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Penstemen-blue-buckle.jpg?resize=564%2C374&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Aspen fleabane](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Aspen-fleabane.jpg?resize=480%2C640&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Blue Flax](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/blue-flax.jpg?resize=480%2C640&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Sand Dune Wallflower](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sand-Dune-Wallflower.jpg?resize=640%2C536&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Bigfruit primrose-sundrop](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Oenothera-macrocarpa-bigfruit-primrose-sundrop.jpg?resize=562%2C520&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Wellington Buckwheat](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Eriogonum_ovalifolium_Wellington.jpg?resize=640%2C600&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Germander Teucrium sp](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Germander-Teucrium-sp.jpg?resize=336%2C252&quality=89&ssl=1)
We don’t have much flower sense for planting a mixed bed like this so I found a sample garden at plant select.org and altered it to reflect the varieties that we ordered.
![Xeriscape Border](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Xeriscape-Border.jpg?resize=294%2C280&quality=89&ssl=1)
![Xeriscape plants](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Xeriscape-plants.jpg?resize=235%2C340&quality=89&ssl=1)
Our bed was not nearly as wide either so the plants ended up just two deep.
![Planted xeriscape](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_3492.jpeg?resize=640%2C853&quality=89&ssl=1)
We are hoping we have a low water use but colorful border eventually.
![Patio Border](https://i0.wp.com/blog.twinsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_3493.jpeg?resize=640%2C853&quality=89&ssl=1)