Silver falls are pretty nifty. Drought tolerant, pretty color, look good trailing from giant pots and, I'd hoped, as ground cover. Silver falls were not part of the original plan, but during one of the excursions looking a certain native plant that was nigh unto impossible to find, there were a couple of starter pots of them on sale for around $2 or something. I snagged one.
From Sept. 2006, the silver falls are the grey/silver cluster in the front corner:
That's it! Started with just one small pot, and the falls took it from there, growing deep on top of itself as well as branching out. A few shots from spring and fall of 2007:
Silver falls now, Nov. 2008, starting with that same corner...
... and heading over toward the center:
Couple more years and they'll make it all the way over to the other side!
The silver falls weren't the only things that went in despite not being part of the original plan. The grassy things in the top photo are Deer Grass, one of the 300+ California native grasses. They were another gift from Mr. In Memoriam, and as they grew I had to remove them from that corner, split and transplant elsewhere. Splitting and transplanting elsewhere has turned out to be a regular thing with the deer grass. Two I put in the center, framing a cluster from the Redneck Mother Aloe. One I put on the side of the house where it was bushed out, and soon I will have to split that one. I'm leaning toward making a row of them on the side of the house. Another interesting factoid about deer grass is it was one of the foundation materials for the bundle coil baskets woven by the region's tribes.
