A very common misconception is that money equals good taste. Well I'm here to say that it most definitely does not. Living in a large growth corridor like i do i see many people build houses from the ground up only to ruin them with poorly planned gardens and concepts that are better left in their head.
What am i talking about i can hear you thinking...well its few different plagues sweeping the district for example; 'the more succulents we have the nicer our garden', 'surly if we scatter ugly rocks around it will look natural', and my favourite is 'that plant wont grow any bigger than it is when we bought it from the nursery'.
Let me clarify again even more clearly. When you see a jungle in front of a nice house you can conclude that the owners didn't take into consideration to overall habit of the mature plants which then leaves them with a mess of leaves and shrubs in front of a nice house. Typically the rock scattering it just ugly always because people just decide that rocks on top of the ground with suppress weeds only to find that instead it kills the plants you want and then weeds are the only things that grow. Finally and most vexing to me are the succulent outcrops in the front yard...seriously i cannot even begin to understand why anyone would think a random Hodge Podge of succulent can 'lift' the facade of any house because it doesn't.
a little thought and preparation goes a long way when starting a garden from scratch but i have come to the conclusion that a good portion of people couldn't care less about their gardens and even if they did they would be too lazy to do anything about it.
image examples of these eye sores will be up tomorrow.
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