Contents If your home has arched entryways, stucco or adobe brick walls, ceramic tile, wrought iron railings, and a clay tile roof, it was most likely influenced by the architecture of Spain. We often refer to these dwellings as Southwestern, Mission, Mediterranean, or Pueblo-style homes, and they are truly a feast for the senses.Taking its cues from the home it surrounds, a Spanish-style garden is a visual, olfactory, auditory, and tactile experience. Like other European landscape designs, its lines and shapes are typically geometric and mostly symmetrical, but there is less rigidity and more emphasis on free-flowing plant form.
Enclosed in a courtyard or bordered by a stone wall, a Spanish-style garden typically includes some kind of central water element, like a fountain, and maybe some statuary. It features heat-tolerant flowering plants, succulents, and shrubs, as well as fruit trees, vegetables, and herbs. It often employs a vine-draped pergola or arbor to provide relie...
