A big project I am currently working on right now is a meditation garden in the southern California desert at a small hot springs spa. The garden will be on what is now four residential-sized lots that will be sandwiched between the delightful 7 room spa and a new treatment center that will house massage rooms. This new garden will have a labyrinth, a large outdoor gathering area for yoga, 5 private meditation pods, a small desert Zen garden, and a fire pit. Both the hot daytime heat and the cool desert evenings will be taken into account so that it will be comfortable and magical experience no matter when one is there. We will use desert plants that the owners have on hand after having purchased a nursery that was going out of business. Right now we are in the design stages and getting the irrigation put in to make sure the first year of planting does well. Virtually all of the plants are native to the desert southwest so it will be a sustainable landscape. There is also some run-off from the spa pool into a small area that we will built the Zen garden around. The view of the San Jacinto Mountains to the south and the Joshua Tree National Park to the north will be a feature of the garden. The photo of the landscape is the actual property, the next is the view from the spa, and the other shots are of plants that I saw while visiting nurseries in the area.
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