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03-Henschel Native Garden

Henschel Native Garden

Saturday | April 11 | 10 AM–5 PM

Private Residence
Garden Size:
2,000 sq. ft., front, back, & side(s)
Started: 2016
Design: Katherine Pakradouni
Install: Katherine Pakradouni & Joel Lupoff
Care: Tom Henschel & Mari Taylor (Deerbrush Design)
Partially Accessible, Restroom Available

About the Garden

This small urban garden has some dynamic specimens. At the same time, some mature plants experienced die-back this year, so sections of the garden got redesigned and now have plants just getting established. What has not changed is the difference in feeling from the public front yard to the private backyard. The front yard is open and airy. All year long, neighbors stop and admire it. The backyard has a quiet wildness that people describe as a sanctuary. Visitors are invited into our coop to be surrounded by dozens of fluttering zebra finches.

Notable Plants

Bush Poppy

Ashyleaf Buckwheat (Eriogonum cinereum)
Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
Bush Poppy (Dendromecon rigida)
Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Saffron Buckwheat (Eriogonum crocatum)