Fling Visit to the Dudan Garden

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With great views come great responsibility.
Agastasche Caryopteris flowers reflects the blue of the sky...
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Native plants with golden flowers link to the tawny hills...
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Any garden designer, faced with such a beautiful vista as backdrop, must complement such a vista, not interfere with it, or hide it.  The designer must add an appropriate foreground, and let the views take first place.
  
The next Fling garden visit, to a garden in Walnut Creek, was quite successful in adding a foreground to complement the background.  
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Horizontal lines created by low walls and low plantings swept in curves around the hill top property and around a low ranch house.
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Smaller native and Mediterranean shrubs provided modest screening where it was needed.  
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A muted color scheme worked.  Garish neon shades would have been out of place.  The brightest note was a soft magenta in the Anigozanthos...
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...but the main colors were soft yellows, golds, oranges, and brick.
The delicate orange and yellow of a variegated Abutilon.
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A soft peachy Lily. 
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Another restrained orange.  
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Just a touch of white...
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A brick red rather than a crimson Lily.
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The brick echoed in Asclepias:
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Warm reds and yellows repeated through many different flower shapes and sizes, and even in the fruit upon a tree.
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Yellows and reds even in foliage.
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This unity of color made for a peaceful garden experience.
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 The garden put us into a relaxed and happy mood.  It was hard to leave.
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 The designers--homeowners and professionals working in collaboration, surely honored the quintessential California view by creating a beautiful environment in which to sit and enjoy it. 
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Comments

  1. Beautiful! I want that chair! Also, I want lizards in my garden!

    (I think the first photo is Caryopteris, not Agastache)

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    1. Corrected, thanks. I sort of thought it might be Caryopteris.

      Chair?!? I want that view!

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  2. I enjoyed this garden. The view was breathtaking. I agree that the garden's vibe was very tranquil. Great shots.

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    1. Everyone seemed to want to linger. I really enjoyed that garden, too.

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  3. Nicely done Hoov, I loved this garden and had not considered the color angle intellectually, though I think it was certainly a gut instinct.

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    1. Thanks! It came to me looking at the photos. Snapping a bucket load of pictures seems to be good for something.

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  4. What a beautiful view and the choice of plants is wonderful, enhancing the colours of the landscape.
    xoxoxo ♡

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  5. What a great take on this garden! I haven't looked at my photos yet but it seemed a difficult one to capture, you did that and then some.

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    1. I just loved the view, for some reason it made me feel right at home.

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  6. An interesting concept, to plan one's flower colors to coordinate with the view and background. It really works in that setting. The dried grass looks quite golden. I have lots of cedar, bamboo, and fruit tree green so get to indulge in bright colors- pinks, reds, peaches, purples, yellows.

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    1. I appreciated the subtle shades and tints in this one. I also thought it worked very well.

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  7. No way for me to choose a favorite few gardens on the fling, but you captured the distant oak-studded Calif. view so well, that about said it all for me. My kind of place! The colors all working together is something I hadn't noticed, as is typical for me first visit. The temperature and a few of the plants there reminded me of my home!

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    1. It was hot--I took all my photos from the shade. If a shot required standing in the sun, it didn't get taken. I enjoyed all the gardens; the organizers did a good job of finding different styles, and they were all interesting.

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