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Have a Low-Water Garden? Here’s a Year-Round Checklist With Care Tips
22.06.2023 - 11:17 / sunset.com
We all know that as the Earth’s climate warms up, conserving water is important, and that the best way to do that is with natives and low-water plants. But one of the lovely benefits of native plants is that greenery suited to its particular climate looks like it belongs. “A low-water garden feels and looks right in much of the West,” says June Scott of June Scott Design in Los Angeles, California.
However, after she installs a drought-tolerant garden, Scott often finds that her clients need something more than just a pretty, lawn-free landscape. “Our clients had questions and we felt that we needed to provide guidance after we sent our gardens out into the world,” Scott says.
Here, the care guide Scott wrote for clients, which is full of useful, year-round tips.
Daniel Bosler
Getting your garden off to a good start will help make it sustainable for the long term. Even drought tolerant plants need supplemental irrigation at least during the first couple of years, often longer.
Water your new garden every three days for the first month after planting. Let the ground dry out a bit between waterings. After a month, switch to irrigating one to two times per week and continue this schedule through the first spring and summer.
After the second or third summer (depending on the amount of rain received during the wet season), most natives or other low-water plants will be fully established. Those natives that are fully drought tolerant will no longer need supplemental irrigation except during dry winters. However, we find that most plants, including natives, succulents, and low-water plants look best with some supplemental irrigation.
Be vigilant in pulling weeds, especially when your plants are young. Weeds compete for both
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