Demonstration Garden · Glendora
“Extremely Water Wise Demonstration Garden” at Glendora Library
The demonstration garden beside Glendora Public Library says something about Glendora. It is small, but it occupies meaningful space in the center of the city’s public life, surrounded by the library, City Hall, the police headquarters, the Armed Forces Memorial, and the civic plaza. Municipal demonstration gardens usually have to carry several messages at once. They are meant to teach, but they also have to offer choices: native plants, shade planting, habitat, lawn alternatives, groundcovers, irrigation ideas, drought-tolerant ornamentals, and a place to sit. Glendora compresses those ideas into a compact landscape that people actually pass through and use. A low mass of silvery foliage demonstrates how drought-tolerant groundcover can soften the edge of a civic walkway.
