Landscape: Gardens

Xeriscape

Reducing landscape water use

Xeriscape is a landscape design concept based on reducing or eliminating the use of water. It became quite popular during the many drought years suffered in California. Since then it has continued because it is a great way to create a nice looking landscape. There is a lot of information about it online. Good nurseries can help support your xeriscape efforts by suggesting low water use plants.

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Arranging boulders for a new landscape

Xeriscape offers several nice benefits. It’s cheaper. It helps the land stay in a more natural condition, and it saves water, electricity and water bills. It also reduces the amount of moisture that can reach your foundation and crawlspace.

Xeriscape offers amazingly attractive alternatives to the lawns and lush shrubbery we have become accustomed to. Even sites with poor soil, lack of water, excessive shade, sun, wind and other adversities can be stunningly attractive using a xeriscape model. Xeriscape requires the design to develop around the conditions. It can work equally well with hillsides, flat ground or just about any terrain you can think of.

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low water use plantings

There are a wide variety of interesting plant specimens that fall into the low water use category. Even some thirsty plants can be “designed in” so long as the overall water use profile remains low.  Unfortunately, if you have kids set on playing soccer, football or croquet, and need a big lawn, xeriscape may not be for you.

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Modern low-water landscape

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Thank you for taking time to use this free website. I hope you find the junk-free information here fun and useful? Please send me your comments and feedback.

Writing and maintaining the information in this manual is a lot of hard work. By sharing these pages with your friends, you help me to continue the effort.  You can easily share these pages to all your favorite social media sites via the shortcut buttons on the sidebar. You can also simply email the page link to your friends. Please share often.

The very best way to help me happens when you use the embedded links to buy things. Using a link is easy and free, yet it provides a great source of support for this site. The vendors I've chosen to link to have proven to be trustworthy and are the very best resources available. That is why I recommend them personally.

HomePreservationManual.com is the place to visit if you want information on

  • maintaining your home
  • how to improve air quality
  • ways to improve the real value of your home
  • what are the best housekeeping services
  • the problems with handymen services
  • how to plan and execute home renovation and home improvement projects
  • tips for spring cleaning; tidying up a messy house
  • and generally how to be a better homeowner.

Make sure you download your monthly maintenance checklist for this month.

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Do you want to link to anything on this site? Please do! Go right ahead. I appreciate it and am honored to be considered as a resource on your website. Always feel free to link to anything you find helpful. Of course, please never copy anything (everything is copyrighted and registered), but link away and thanks!

Thank you!

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If you have questions or just want to say hi, please send me a note. If you are looking for help performing the work described and you are in the San Francisco area, go to HPS Palo Alto Inc.and request a free evaluation.

As a reminder, it is unlawful to make copies including cut and paste or especially in the form of making printouts for reuse. If you wish to make a print for personal use, I will happily grant you one-time permission if you will kindly send me a request in writing.

Thanks again!