 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Melanie Goodman designed an entrance and side garden for her mother's messiah home. Well, this is what I designed. Oh, this is beautiful. Colorful. Thank you. Thank you. You chose this because of the colors? I really looked at the color, but more than anything, I wanted to make sure the plants would grow and would thrive. This is a south-facing wall and it's really, really hot. For years we were never really able to grow anything consistently that would live throughout the seasons except for that oleander, which was planted years ago. It likes the hot and the blankey flowers are doing well. The black-eyed susans do well. The cherry sage, they're looking really good. Thank you. Let's go see the garden around the side. Well, this is beautiful. It has a lot of the same plants and some different ones. Yes. What I wanted to do here was really fill it up. Before we had plants that you see were already established a little bit bigger, like the Pampas grass and that big sage over there and the Pampas grass over here. I wanted to fill it up. I like the full types of wilder gardens. This is what you see. I started out with some small plants, but they seem to like the constant water because we put in a drip system and that allows them to really spread. A lot of the plants have receded themselves. You've got an amended soil here, which helps as well. Yes. We have clay soil here, Kalichi here in Missiya. We put a raised bed and filled it with some topsoil and dug it around. That obviously helps. This is the east side, so it's protected and things should grow better here. I see you've got the drip irrigation system here, and the purpose of that is more than just to be able to irrigate regularly. Yes, absolutely. The idea was to have obviously the continual watering, so that helps the plants, but it was more to fit our lifestyle. I was watching my mom every day water these plants, and we thought, let's just do away with that and do it right the first time. What are the plants in here that you like the most? Well, I love the Artemisia. I think it's called Poet's Castle. I like that because it's the silver color. I think it just provides a nice focal point in contrast to the other colors. It looks good with the reds of the cherry sage. Right now it's not in flower, but that Spanish broom really is vibrant, and that was a good choice, and it likes it because it's grown nicely. I guess I just like the different colors, like the height of the plants, and I had that in mind, and how high is this plant going to grow? So you consider everything when you purchase the plants? That's right. Well, they're doing very well here, and thank you for the tour of the garden you designed for your mother's house. Oh, thank you. The seeding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.