#cactus in front yard

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My Cactus Garden

Front yard overview | back yard overview

Last year, I planted winter hardy cactus in my front yard. My neighbors thought I was stupid (I live in USDA zone 5). They didn't know winter hardy cactus existed. Well, it does and it thrived and it made it through the winter. Admittedly our winter was not that bad this year. But there was lots of flooding and I was far more worried about over-watering than the cold. So, in my mind, the cactus all survived one of the worst scenarios my area could've thrown at it.

Which meant it was time to make the cactus garden more permanent. I tossed in a ton of pea gravel and made a little rock garden.

I bought a bunch more, fancier varieties, of sedum and stonecrop. I also bought a couple other (winter hardy) arid plants and put them in to fill out the spaces between my cactus.

Behold: My first adventure into xeriscaping. Yes, I need to mix the gravel. I am lazy and haven't done that yet.

This last photo is the from from the inside of my house. It shows the back of the cactus & sedum garden.

The boulders in the garden are actually large flat-ish rocks I pulled from the back yard and placed around cement blocks. In the one closest to the window, I did not cover the back because I planted creeping phlox inside the block. There's another one of these setups to the right off-camera.

I also have 3 tiered pots. The highest has an iris, 2nd highest is nepeta, lowest is rubrum (there's a 2nd rubrum plot hidden by the highest pot as well).

Most of the cactus are prickly pear. But there's also joshua tree, claret cup, and snow leopard.

There are several varieties of sedum, and probably some stonecrop. I also have a few Heather, beard tongue, and hens & chicks (houseleek?).

In the middle of this photo is a large dish that I added as an afterthought for a bird bath. I put in a solar fountain. It has only been out for 2 days but this ended up being a HUGE HIT with the birds.

My ACTUAL bird bath in the back yard (on a pedestal) is either being ignored or hasn't been found yet. Meanwhile, just today there are several birds using the one in the front, and even fighting over it!

In this photo (which has the quality of a potato, I'm sorry) there are 4 different birds all trying to use the bath.

I honestly did not expect anything to become of this bath and half expected to let it dry up from laziness.

But with the front window open, I can HEAR the birds bathing in it, and that reminds me to fill it, and now this is actually entertaining to watch the birds so I'm thinking of adding a 2nd, and maybe even 3rd dish/bird bath to help fill out the xeriscape.

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