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Landscaping Ideas: Discover Desert Landscaping Plants
Life in an arid and dry climate has its benefits and challenges.I’ve found desert landscaping to be one of the more interestingchallenges since moving to the Southwest. You’re going to wantto spend a little more planning time on your yard than it wouldnormally for most other areas. You and your landscaper will needto work with a plan that includes only plants and trees that cansurvive with much less water. Nobody is going to plant somethingif it cannot sustain itself. Even if you have a state of the art irrigation system to supplywater around the clock, there will be times of drought and waterrationing. Not to mention the initial cost and maintenancecosts. It is much simpler for your desert landscape to simplyuse plants that will thrive even in the hot sun all day. So takesome time with your landscaping plan to ensure that you haveeverything appropriate to the climate. Another benefit to usingdesert landscaping friendly plants is, that not only will theseplants do well even in the hot sun; they will also be able toflourish in the low quality soil common to these climate zones.You will not need to add fertilizers and soil conditioners,which further will cut down on your maintenance time andexpense. To start you off, here are two plants that are usefulin desert landscaping: Longwood Blue BluebeardThis is a deciduous shrub; it will grow back every spring. Itwill always return to its healthy and contented state each year,which makes it ideal for desert landscaping. Longwood BlueBluebeard is a medium-sized shrub, growing to anywhere between 3and 4 feet high with a width of around 2 feet. This is ahandsome plant for use in desert landscaping’ not only is itattractive, with its striking blue flower clusters and silverfoliage, it is also quite fragrant. Autumn JoyAutumn Joy is a perennial that you can employ well in desertlandscaping. With this plant you will get abundant leaves inornate whorls. These leaves can be many different colors, soAutumn Joy can be bought to go with your landscaping design.This plant is ideal for desert landscaping since it grows easilyin rock gardens. This lovely desert plant also has uniqueattention-grabbing flowers distinct from any I have ever seen.The small flowers grow in clusters and can be different colorsand shades, but most commonly are yellow, orange and red andpink. Also, be aware that if you plant these in your garden youwill have butterflies around as they are attracted to theflowers, so be prepared to have your visitors ignore your lovelylandscape and ooh and ahh over the butterflies! There are many other unique plants to complement your desertlandscaped backyard just like these, so have fun discoveringthem and enjoying your new garden.
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