 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Starting with the typical Denver urban property, Haroon Doss has created a landscape that is anything but typical. Haroon, what were the opportunities and the challenges this property offered you? Well Curtis, this was a all-grass lawn, bluegrass lawn garden when I first purchased the property. And over the years I decided that lawn didn't do a lot for me, and in addition it used a lot of water. So I wanted to convert it into more of a low-water garden. So it's all done at once? No, in fact I take a sort of evolutionary approach to my gardening and I start off with one bed at a time and each year kind of add an additional bed to my garden. So you grow the garden? That's right. It evolves over time. What are the plants? I see some really striking plants here. Well, we've got a number of flowering plants at this time including ice plants we've got the New Virginia yellow ice plant there. Another one even down there. And that's, you're right, that's another variety of ice plant called starburst. And here I see a pink color that's not very common in gardens. This is an unusual, almost salmon color which is a South African plant called Coral Canyon Twinsper. It adds something to a landscape that I don't think anything else can add. But right next to it is a plant that looks striking just in its form, the big ball of starburst. You're right, that's a Persian starburst allium which is one of the largest ornamental onions you can have. The way you've done the blue avina here is growing between the rocks like a grass would grow in nature. And in fact I like to use ornamental grasses wherever I can as highlights and this one just happened to fit in perfectly between those rocks. And I look back in here with what's usually an unused property it looks like a very restful area. It is, I've put a bench in here. Well, why don't I show you it down this way? This is a really shady area but I notice as we came in you had grasses and grass like plants that needed more light and now we transition into those that need very little light. That's true Curtis, this is an all shade area. I've got three summit ashes that keep this shaded all through the warm months. And as a result I plant those plants that can take dry shade. This is an area that most people don't landscape. There's not a whole lot of space between me and my neighbor's house here but there was just enough for me to develop this small garden and my neighbor was kind enough to allow me to place plants those euonymous Manhattan plants there against his north facing wall because he doesn't utilize that space at all. So it's worked out very nicely. It's good to have neighbors you can work with like that. Oh, it's very good. And of course the ferns and hostas like the shade. They do, they're doing well. Of course there's certain ferns that like our dry climate and a lot of others just can't take it that dry. And the coral bells even flower. And the bleeding hearts flower in the shade. They do, they get a little bit of morning light here but most of the day is shade and they're still getting nice colors. Now we're moving out in the light and I hear some water over there. We're coming around the bend towards our pond. This is a really interesting pond. Does it use a lot of water? Actually Curtis, despite what you might think the pond uses less water than if I had kept this as bluegrass lawn. Really? We actually add water to this only once every two weeks for about 15 minutes. Hmm. And this is the east side of the house. That's right. So it's nice we get the morning sun. We come out here and eat breakfast a lot of times and we can watch the pond and birds and butterflies and it's very relaxing. Then in the evening it's shaded. So you can come here in the evening and listen to the babbling brook and be relaxed. That's the other side of it is in the evening here in Denver in the summer it gets really hot on the western side but on the eastern side it's shaded. I notice you've got a river birch here which is appropriate for this kind of setting. Yes, another tree you wouldn't think that would grow in a low water landscape but it actually has fared very well here with just a minimal amount of water.