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Marin, California

The same plants, brought home.

Deergrass and toyon at the door; manzanita off the terrace; the fog line where it always was.

Fog-line arrival: the coastal site before planting, seen through Marin fog.

Marin, California

Where the fog line ends, the garden begins.

No lawn. Nothing wasted. The coast does the watering.

Bolinas Meadow arrival: purple needlegrass and fescue closing the ground, a mown path to the coast.

Coastal bluff

Purple needlegrass closes the ground.

Fog-fed natives replace an exposed graded site - a meadow that never asks for a hose.

Bolinas Ridge: coyote brush and buckwheat sheared low by the ocean wind, summer-dormant.

Bolinas Ridge

Coyote brush holds the wind line.

Sheared low by the ocean wind. Buckwheat and yarrow take the gaps. Summer-dormant - the ridge keeps itself.

Serpentine slope on Mount Tamalpais: manzanita with mahogany limbs growing on green stone.

Serpentine, Mount Tamalpais

Manzanita grows where soil gives up.

Mahogany limbs on green stone. Ceanothus at the broken edge. No irrigation has ever reached this slope.

Lagunitas Creek: sedge banks under oak shade, water running below the riffle.

Lagunitas Creek

The water we don't use ends up here.

Sedge banks under oak shade. Coho below the riffle. Every unwatered garden upstream is counted in this creek.

The built garden: deergrass and toyon at the door, manzanita off the terrace, the fog line beyond.

Marin, California

The same plants, brought home.

Deergrass and toyon at the door; manzanita off the terrace; the fog line where it always was.