National City resident Catalina Schultz has the 2023 winning landscape transformation for Sweetwater Authority water district's WaterSmart makeover contest.
When Catalina Schultz and her husband, Steve, bought their National City home in 2011, the front yard was basically just lawn. And Catalina, a self-described housewife, had no interest in mowing it. She didn’t exactly have a plan, but the couple set aside $1,000 for her to dig up the lawn and create a garden that would be low water and low maintenance. Once the lawn was out, she started shopping for succulents — the least expensive ones she could find.
Schultz chopped off an agave fox tail when it got too heavy for its stem. Then she drilled holes into the stem and planted jade cuttings into them. When her astoundingly tall African candelabra needed to be staked, she leaned a wood beam against it, then decided to hang pots filled with succulents from the beam. The pots she has bought are stars in the garden as well. Schultz is clearly drawn to animals, with bunnies and pigs and frogs and cats and elephants and sheep all in pot form.
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