Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Lifestyle Landscaping: Landscape

Lifestyle
Landscaping
Landscape Choices
For Your Home
Featuring
Arid, Semi-Arid and Lush & Efficient
Landscape Styles
What is Lifestyle Landscaping?
There are several factors to
consider when choosing the
landscape style for your home:
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Low Water Use - Desert
friendly landscapes are the key
to maintaining the beauty of
the desert while conserving its
most valuable resource - water.
Function - Play area for pets
and kids? Having barbecues?
Watching birds & butterflies?
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What is Lifestyle Landscaping?
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Maintenance - Would you rather
relax in your garden or work in it?
Aesthetic Appeal - Flowers, dramatic
plant forms, birds and butterflies –
what makes you say “oooh!”
Backyard Wildlife Habitat Backyard habitats are vital to local
wildlife who have lost habitat to
building and development throughout
the Coachella Valley. Learn about
desert ecology in your own back yard!
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Arid
Lifestyle Landscapes:
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Semi-Arid
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Lush & Efficient
Arid – slow growth, dramatic plant forms, big
flowers, low water use, very low maintenance
Semi-Arid – slow to moderate growth, dramatic
plant forms, colorful flowers, low to moderate
water use, low to some maintenance
Lush & Efficient – faster growth, colorful plants,
some turf area for recreation, moderate to high
water use, moderate to high maintenance
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Arid
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Low to no maintenance
Slower growing,
low water use plants
Often uses decorative
rock or mulch
May provide year round
colors and blooms
Interesting plant forms
and textures
Uses only 1/3 the water
a turf lawn would use
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Semi-Arid
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Low maintenance
Often uses decorative
rock or mulch
May include limited turf
for entertainment or
kids & pets play area
Mix of low and medium
water use plants
Uses only about half
the water that a turf
lawn would use
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Lush & Efficient
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Higher maintenance
May include limited turf
for entertainment or kids
& pets play area
May incorporate areas of
faster growing, medium
to high water use plants
Maintenance of irrigation
system is a must
Uses about 2/3 the water
that a turf lawn would use
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Turf Lawn
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Very high maintenance
Turf often turns brown in
hot summer temps even
when watered regularly
Turf does not fit the
warm, beautiful desert
look or ecology
The beautiful desert landscape below uses only about 1/3 the
water that a turf lawn uses, requires less maintenance than
turf and provides much needed habitat for native wildlife.
Maintenance of irrigation
system is a must
Uses about 3 times
the water that a desert
friendly landscape uses higher water bills
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Beautiful Desert Landscapes
MSWD’s Water Efficient Demonstration Garden
(shown at left) is open to the public to visit anytime.
The Garden is located at 66575 Second St. in
Desert Hot Springs and admission is free.
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Beautiful Desert Landscapes
Hot Springs Park (shown at left) features a path with
signs explaining the hydro-geological makeup of the
area. The path and fountain area showcase
beautiful desert landscaping. The Hot Springs Park
fountain is at the corner of Palm Dr. & 8th St. in
Desert Hot Springs, CA.
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For more information
and resources on desert
friendly landscaping,
visit www.mswd.org.
Visit local parks and nature preserves to see which plants and flowers grow naturally
in your climate. Many of these may be incorporated into your desert garden.
Many cacti and succulents have large, gorgeous
blooms, and may send out several blooms at once.
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