You can enjoy a low-maintenance and low-water garden without losing colour
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Enjoy a low-maintenance, low-water yard without losing colour
Enhance the clean, straight lines of your contemporary home with the clean, curving lines of bromeliads and succulents. They can colour your world all year round as you let them explore and settle in where your lawn once was. You’ll end up with carefree brilliance – bold and soft colours, strong and soft shapes, and strong and flu y flowers that defy your imagination and embrace the sun, all with a limited demand for water.
1 flower tower power Foliage is a bromeliad hallmark but the once-in-a-lifetime flowering is a knockout, like this Androlepis skinneri.
2 fire up in winter
You can still have colour and vibrancy even in mid-winter with a front garden filled with sun-loving bromeliads and succulents. Imagine passers-by oohing and aahing at the sight of the spectacular red bromeliad (Alcantarea ‘Hellfire’) and the pillars of Aloe ‘Super Red’.
3 FAN THE FLAMES
With its punky hairdo, the dragon tree (Dracaena draco) is a dramatic feature in any dry, sunny garden. Surround it with fiery-coloured bromeliads and succulents.
4 WE LOVE a sunburnt country The bright yellow flowers and bright red bracts of this bromeliad (Aechmea nudicaulis) are enhanced by sun exposure.
5 NATIONAL COLOURS
You may think of Irish roses as those dark rosees but they also come in green and gold, such as Aeonium ‘Sunburst’.
6 stripe you lucky
Create height, movement and a point of difference with the colourful leaf spines of the Abyssinian banana.
7 put red to bed
When succulents flower, there’s nothing beer than Crassula falcata.