Monday, February 20, 2006

Garden Rooms ~ The Barrio Garden

Garden rooms have been around for a long time and are a particular favorite of mine. Even as a child, I loved to find my own secrete place in the garden...then it was under the huge hydrangaes in a San Francisco back yard.

Here is an article on a garden room in in Tucson.....
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Enclosed by an adobe wall and an Indian fig cactus fence, the Barrio Garden is an intimate space.
The small garden — within the Tucson Botanical Gardens — is designed to honor the gardening traditions and eclectic spirit of Tucson's Hispanic gardeners. It has been a success by any measure.
Filled with herbs, citrus, loquats and pomegranates, and navigated via a winding path, the garden has a homemade, welcoming look. Since its construction in the 1990s, the Barrio Garden has been a personal favorite. Today it seems even more vibrant than normal. I look for a gardener to question.

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