Planning For Desert Gardening (Google / bestlongislandmasonry.com)

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If you live in a dry and arid climate then your desert landscaping is going to take just a little much more planning than some other parts of the country. desert landscaping will have to work with a plan that includes only plants and trees that can survive with much much less water than some other plants. There is no point in planting some thing if it can not sustain itself afterwards. So take some time together with your desert landscaping plan and make certain that you’ve done everything suited to the climate.

You could spend the money to get greater irrigation put in but the money will be great along with the time will be all consuming. It’s a lot simpler for your desert landscaping plan to just include plants that will thrive even in the hot sun all day.

What makes utilizing desert landscaping friendly plants so wonderful is that not only will these plants do well even inside the hot sun they’ll also be able to thrive in poor high quality soil. This can be a much required high quality because locations that have so much sun tend to have poor soil as well. So in essence you are killing two birds with one stone as they say.

Here are some great plants that you are able to use in your desert landscaping:

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Author: Willem Van Cotthem

Honorary Professor of Botany, University of Ghent (Belgium). Scientific Consultant for Desertification and Sustainable Development.