XERISCAPING - Garden Guide
Does your Southwestern Home Need House Jewelry?
Homes in the Southwestern United States tend to have many unique features no other homes can boast. Just drive down a road in Arizona, New Mexico, or any other state in the desert
Southwest and you'll notice the houses tend...
Save Tons of Money - 24 Great Water Conservation Tips
1. Install a good water timer for all your plants. This will help save money on your next water bill. It will also save you time.2. Save water by using a drip system. Check your local yellow pages for landscaping or drip...
Great Looking Desert Evergeen Shrubs
Agave or Mescal (spanish): This plant is a beautiful succulent and primarily used for desert landscaping. Very little watering and care it likes gravelly soil and full sun. Several varieties including the americana, parryi and...
How to Give Your Southwestern Backyard a True Southwestern Flair
Lets face it, the Southwestern Backyard is not the same as any other backyard. Try to plant a nice lawn, and you cultivate an expanse of brown crusty dead stuff. Or you will run up a water bill worthy of an Olympic swimming...
May Gardening Tips for the Southwest
Use Cypress mulch to help keep roots insulated from the HOT sun. This helps keep moisture in the root zone as well as the keeping weeds down to a minimum.Lantana, red bird of paradise, Oleander, and other winter damaged plants...
Waterwise Xeriscaping for an Extraordinary Spring Garden
Now that spring is officially (on the calendar, at least), it's time to think about how to turn your garden from ordinary to extraordinary.One way to do that is to think in terms of xeriscaping. The term means to use waterwise...
Xeriscaping Plants - What are They? Find Out Here
It is actually a landscaping technique using native plants (native to your community) to help beautify your garden, backyard, or business property. And at the same time help conserve water and protect the surrounding...
Xeriscaping For An Extraordinary Garden
Is it time to think about how to turn your garden from ordinary to extraordinary?One way to do that is to think in terms of xeriscaping. The term means to use waterwise plants, which is especially useful in dry climates. Xeric...
Healing Aloe Vera Plants Are Easy To Grow Indoors or Out and Provide Health Benefits
Aloe Vera , known as the healing plant, is easy to care for indoors or in the garden. It is a drought tolerant succulent which grows well in dry shade to part sun. Its bright green stalks grow up to 1 foot long and up to 2...
Vacation Proofing your Garden
For many of us avid gardeners the thought of a summer vacation is both a delight and a source of great anxiety. Whether we are going up to the cottage or camping in the great Canadian wilderness, we want to ensure the...
Playing in Dirt has Environmental, Aesthetic, Nutritious and Health Benefits
Xeriscaping and even more so, naturalistic gardening (naturalistic gardening means to closely imitate the nature, to garden with native plants) have many benefits for our immediate as well as global nature space. They...
Watering Your Garden - How to Make Each Drop Count
Water-wise gardening or xeriscaping the practice of gardening in dry conditions - is becoming much more important to gardeners, especially those in dry areas.If you have sandy soil, steep slopes where water runs off quickly,...
Landscaping On A Budget
It is possible to have an appealing, unique look to your yard without investing thousands of dollars every year in order to do so. Practicing some basic conservation rules can help you to save money and still make your yard...