Sabrina Grove credits her mother, Alice Strouf, with her love of gardening and her good eye for color.
Grove’s front yard is filled with an artist’s palette of periwinkles, fuchsias, burnt umber oranges and glazed corn yellows that sometimes change color from year to year.
Her xeriscape garden (a style of landscape design that requires little to no irrigation or other maintenance) took two to three years to become self-propagating.
“It’s the survival of the fittest in my garden. Each year some flowers thrive and then some don’t,” said Grove.