Plant Change: Subthemes and Illustrative Quotes
| Plant growth can obscure the rain message | It’s quite difficult to see the water movement. . . . [because] the plant material is growing so well. |
| Coming off our roof are these gutters, and the water in the gutter runs into these tubes and then is directed down into these containers. [The containers] are decorative and they’re pretty. But you can’t see them anymore because there’s stuff growing over them. | |
| To me, the only things that haven’t worked well are the plantings. And it’s just because they’ve grown too big for their space. | |
| Lack of knowledge of local plants can result in poor choices | Okay, so full disclosure: I’m not from X, I’m a landscape architect who was doing a project in X. And I knew some of the plants there, but we selected some plants that were overly aggressive, so the plant ecosystem of this changed rather quickly. In just a few years, some things took over. |