Garden Pathways

Who doesn't like to lead someone down the garden path?

Many happy hours have been spent guiding friends, visitors, children, all kinds of people along our garden pathways. They were started some time ago. Rocks always held a fascination for us. We had collected them from far and near and had weighed down our boat and RV with them. Who knew they would finally settle down in Borrego Springs and become part of a desert path through a desert garden!

It started small and just grew, grew, GREW! Now, there is a well defined walkway leading around the back acre. It began with a short rock lined path leading to the palapa. It ended up as a meandering tenth of a mile walk around the garden. Recently, we filled it in with gravel, which has proven fairly easy to maintain and does inhibit weed growth, or, at least gives an outline for grooming.

Now, we hula hoe along the outer sides of the path, which keeps the yard looking fairly tidy and offers a cholla-free means of walking through the garden, while still enabling observation of all the natural plants and animals that call this place their own.

If your back is still healthy, you want some exercise and live in the desert...this might be the very project you were seeking!