In the 43rd installment and part three of flipping your grass into a beautiful water-wise garden, where I discuss the perfect plants to grow.
But first, before planting your garden, design it. Do you want tall plants intermingled with smaller plants, all tall plants, all small ones, or a cascading effect of tall, smaller, and small?
Install the water system. Even though you will grow drought-tolerant plants, you still need to get them established first, and that takes regular watering. Drip systems work well for this because it allows you to meter the watering, thus ensuring the correct amount of water at the right time.
Next, are you putting in rock, gravel, or just dirt? There are advantages and disadvantages with any type of substrate.
Now onto the good stuff. Here are tried and true plants to grow in your garden.
🌵 Cactus plants (which there are many) take very little water and repel many pests due to their sharp stickers.
🏵 Yarrow is a great addition to any drought-resistance garden. Multiple bushy flowers are on each sturdy stem in beautiful colors, including red, purple, peach, yellow, and white, with different shades of those colors.
🌻 Sunflowers can make a rock garden shine and create a bold statement. There are small and mammoth sunflowers you can use as a backdrop or use as centerpieces.
🌿 Aloe not only doesn't need much water but it's medicinal. Have a sunburn or mosquito bite? Aloe vera helps to calm the itch and pain.
🌼 Rockrose has a perfume aroma that displays large, papery flowers; they are fast growing and love the sun, and don't need much water to thrive.
🏵 Brittlebrush are a bush teeming with yellow daises that need minimal watering and offer a bright addition to a water-wise garden.
🌸 Crape Myrtle puts on quite a show in summer with gorgeous, showy blossoms that linger into fall. The beautiful, dark bark contrasts with bright pinks, purples, reds, and snow-white flowers.
🌼 Bougainvillea provides an instant tropical feel to your garden, which feature vibrant, often vining blooms and peak in summer, and in milder climates bloom from early spring to late fall.
🏵 Marigolds, with their strong, aromatic scent and mustard blooms do quite well in a water-wise garden. Bonus is that they keep away nasty pests, so your plants stay healthy without being food to unwanted insects.
This is just a small sample of plants that do well in deserts or without much water.
Do you have a water-wise garden? Post your pics below!
Happy Gardening!!
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