Canyon Drive

A rhythm of vertical forms accentuates native garden vignettes

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The Green Room celebrates the significant architecture of this Piestewa Peak home with a rhythm of vertical forms, textures, and colors in an entry garden.

The visitor’s eye is carried from the point of entry through a washway, a living spine with a restrained palette of native cacti. A native barrel cactus grouping’s circular forms juxtapose with linear elements and a spiral arrangement of billowing native groundcover.

Quarried stone outcroppings create strong lines. A forest of cardon cacti act as sentinel.

Placed texture and the density of repeated forms create movement. Wildflowers emerge throughout for seasonal color and delight.