'Los Agave Jardin' is a landscape installation located at the intersection of Grape Street + State Street in Little Italy in downtown San Diego. A parcel of land that neither the City of San Diego nor Cal Trans accepted responsibility for, it was adopted by the adjacent landowner for use as a demonstration installation for a sustainable landscape. Given the fact that San Diego is located in a desert climate and that local and imported water supplies are being rapidly depleted, this installation is a non-irrigated small scale planting of Agave weberii 'tequiliana' - Tequila Agave, with an understory of coral colored decomposed granite (d.g.).

The d.g. was color matched to replicate the soils of the tequila fields in the State of Jalisco, and the installation is intended as a connection to Mexico (the installation is at the entry to the Interstate 5 southbound on ramp leading to Tijuana), as a garden that never gets a drop of supplemental water other than rainfall (the plants were watered once when planted end of 2006) and as a indication of the Adoptees love of Tequila. Primarily, the installation is to show and display that a landscape can be designed and implemented without the need for water, fertilizer and maintenance, other than pulling weeds. The cost of this installation was approximately $1000.00 for materials and labor. The weed pulling is when I get around to it.

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