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The Davis Residence
After living with an English-style garden for 25 years in the dry El Paso environment, Anne and Sam Davis were ready for something different in the redesign of a portion of their residential setting. They wanted the new garden to be low-maintenance with cacti; have a Mexican influence; and be visually separate from the existing garden. To accommodate the owner’s wishes, the new garden is developed as a kind of “folly” enclosed by walls within the existing English garden.
This new garden of “Mexican influence” incorporates bright colors and various plantings of cacti. A simple palette of concrete walls, paint, gravel, and cacti is used to create a reinterpretation of a Mexican walled garden. The design is a series of boxes. Displayed as gardens inside of gardens, these boxes create a metaphor for a house. Singular plantings of cacti inhabit the different garden rooms, as the space contained by one box and outside of another become intentionally ambiguous