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Xeriscape Means More Color for Less Water
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This is one of our favorite landscapes. When we first met the owner, the owner had given up watering her huge - and boring -
expanse of lawn. Her sprinkler system was no longer functional and she wanted to replace the lawn with something that could be watered by hand - very infrequently . After amending the soil, installing some huge flat boulders and a wandering flagstone path, we filled the yard with xeric plants that bloomed throughout the season. The result is stunning!
She does, in fact, water by hand about once or twice a month, and her maintenance, with the exception of spring and fall
cleanups, takes her a couple of hours a month. This photo was taken in the late summer of 2003; the landscape was installed in the summer of 1999. |
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Here are some shots of the same landscape in the summer of 2000.
As you can see, these kinds of plants bloom the first season, and fill in rapidly |
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Russian sage:
Perovskia atriplicifolia
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Low water
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