When I lived in Mexico it seemed like three plants thrived and little else. Geraniums, bougainvillea vines and cactuses. I had an ugly little triangle of garden near my front door, with a withered cabbage tree, a tall stemmed rose bush and plenty of weeds. Framing this garden was a metal fence and a wall, with a long staircase leading down to the road. I decided to keep the rose, plant a climbing rose next to the fence, and interspersed it with some snapdragons and other flowers. It was a charming and surprising result for such a hot climate; Landscaping Design Saratoga. Yes, it needed daily watering with the hot climate and the first two years I needed to prune the climbing rose quite dramatically, but I was amazed how it thrived. It crawled along that ugly fence and bloomed with fragrant white roses from the first year onwards. Lesson learned: if you have lots of ugly concrete and metal, mask the ugliness with climbing roses or bougainvilleas. They will provide color, fragrance (from roses) and both are a surprisingly low maintenance solution.
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