Annuals at the Golf Course

This week a horticulturist took me on a tour of a private golf course that Tom Watson helped designed.

My husband keeps telling me that when we retire we are going to play golf and I will love it. I respond that while he is golfing, I'm going to love looking at the gardens.

At work I have been out and about visiting customers. This week I got to go on a garden tour at Shadow Glen Golf Course. Monica was the tour guide and showed us the gardens around the club house and on the front nine. With a prolific deer and rabbit population, gardening at Shadow Glen can be a challenge. A combination planting of annuals that looks great and seems to be critter proof is Cinderella Moss Rose and Desert Sunset Lantana.

For more on annuals in rugged conditions, click on Annuals in the Trial Gardens. The winners of the trial garden must survive deer, rabbits, insects, heat and drought.