Building a yard that's more than a lawn

A landscape with over 30 years’ history in surviving deer, drought, floods and Central Texas’ ruggedly challenging environment is still going strong in Willow Creek at the home of Bill and Celeste Healy on Mountain Drive. As Spring Lake Garden Club’s yard of the month for February, the Healy home exhibits a long-term vision of how to create a varied yet coherent landscape with lowmaintenance native and adaptive plants in an urban neighborhood.

Society garlic surrounds mature oaks, sago palms and other plants in a stone-edged bed.