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Article: Tapestry hillside in just 3.5 years; when the Adamsons of La Jolla started, it was only ice plant. (Evelyn and Bill Adamson)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- April 1, 1984
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The starting point for Evelyn and Bill Adamson's garden was, in her words, "a beautiful hill covered with awful ice plant." In just 3 1/2 years, the Adamsons transformed the hill--behind their house in La Jolla, California--into the colorful tapestry shown here.
With a profusion of flowring ground covers, ornamental trees and shrubs, and fruit trees, as well as annual and perennial flowers and vegetables, the hillside has lush, intensively cultivated look--but it takes only 2 to 3 hours a week to maintain and uses relatively little water. Most of the ground covers were started from inexpensive seeds or cuttings. And many of the plants are fire-retardant or contain ...