Living Annie's Annuals catalog + sidewalk veggie beds
Another garden I enjoyed on the 2023 Ruth Bancroft Waterwise Garden Tour was what I mentally dubbed the Living Annie’s Annuals catalog. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the homeowner, Melissa, actually is the marketing director of Annie’s Annuals (and the former marketing director of the Ruth Bancroft Garden). No wonder her garden reminded me of the display beds at Annie’s! In the official garden tour blurb, the style of this garden is described as “RBG-inspired with CA native & edible landscaping (with no cacti!).” Melissa isn’t fond of spiky succulents like aloes and agaves, but she does like Mangave ‘Mission to Mars’ because it reminds her of the RBG. As you’ll see further down, she has a couple of beautiful specimens in her front yard. Another focus of this garden, in addition to all kinds of flowering annuals and perennials, are vegetables. As Melissa says in her garden statement, “"[I wanted to] help the environment, save water and money and have a relatively...