Choosing Shrubs For A Dry Climate Garden ? How To Think Like A Professional Designer
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under Gardening | Leave a Comment
Understanding the design function of landscaping shrubs can help you make wiser choices when planning your garden, or adding some plants to an existing border.
When choosing which shrubs to include in your garden, your starting point may be based on your favorite likes and dislikes. As counter intuitive as it may sound, this approach is mistaken. Instead, you can think like a professional garden designer, by allotting a specific design role to each element in the garden, including the landscape shrubs and bushes.
Garden Irrigation - What Does Over-Watering Really Mean?
Posted on May 18, 2008 - Filed Under Gardening | Leave a Comment
Most home gardeners realize that watering too much is a bad thing. But do they know that what it really means is the opposite of what it seems to be? Here are some important tips for efficient and effective irrigation.
Most home gardeners are probably aware of the detrimental effects of over-watering. Quite apart from the desire to save water, there is a vague recognition that excessive watering is bad for the plants. It is common to find in garden literature for example, references to this or that plant that is “sensitive to over-watering?. By understanding this term more precisely however, you can irrigate more effectively, and manage the water at your disposal more efficiently.
Garden irrigation ? Why It?s So Important To Grow And Water Different Plant Groups Separately
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under Gardening | Leave a Comment
In dry climate gardens, a professional irrigation system is a pre-condition for successfully growing the garden plants and managing water responsibly. It also makes good design sense.
Effective irrigation and efficient water management are about supplying suitable quantities of water to the garden plants, at the right intervals. Both these parameters differ in accordance with various groups of plants. Trees and shrubs of tropical origin may thrive on soil conditions that are almost permanently moist, while species from dry climates invariably prefer the soil to dry out somewhat between the waterings. Herbaceous flowering plants need to be watered frequently, while under such a regime, herbs are liable to suffer from a lack of air in the root zone.