{"id":59243,"date":"2021-09-09T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59243"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:17:56","slug":"xeriscape-landscaping-whose-time-has-come-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59243","title":{"rendered":"Xeriscape \u2013 landscaping whose time has come."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Xeriscape \u2013 landscaping whose time has come.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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With drought conditions or lower than average precipitation becoming more widespread across the country, it\u2019s time to revisit the principles of xeriscape gardening. Let\u2019s take a look at the \u201cclassic\u201d principles and we\u2019ll update them, Garden Professor style.<\/p>\n

Note: If you\u2019re growing food crops to supply your table not all of these principles will apply. Some will, e.g mulching, and some won\u2019t. This blog post is focused on ornamental landscaping.<\/p>\n

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SO WHERE DID IT ALL BEGIN?<\/strong>
\nAs an \u201cofficial\u201d landscaping technique xeriscaping seems to have begun in the early 80\u2019s. Denver Water, the largest and oldest public water utility in Denver, Colorado, coined the term xeriscape in 1981 by combining \u201clandscape\u201d with the Greek prefix\u00a0xero-<\/em>, meaning \u2018dry\u2019. The utility then began to formally define the main principles of xeriscaping for members of the Denver community interested in modifying gardening practices to save water. The results were the Seven Principles of Xeriscaping, listed below.<\/p>\n

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF XERISCAPING<\/strong>
\n1. Sound landscape planning and design.
\n2. Limitation of turf\/lawn to appropriate, functional areas.
\n3. Use of water efficient plants.
\n4. Efficient irrigation.
\n5. Soil amendments.
\n6. Use of mulches.
\n7. Appropriate landscape maintenance.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s review them and apply some up-to-date gardening information.<\/p>\n

1. \u201cSound landscape planning and design\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the ideal starting point for all gardens, \u201cRight Plant, Right Place.\u201d This principle earns a GP thumbs-up.<\/p>\n

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2. \u201cLimitation of turf\/lawn to appropriate, functional areas\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 turf has a place in the landscape but perhaps not everywhere or in every landscape. \u201cRight Plant, Right Place\u201d (hmm, that sounds familiar). Another GP thumbs-up.<\/p>\n

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3. \u201cUse of water efficient plants\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 it may be stating the obvious but you want water efficient plants that work in your grow zone or micro-climate. Do some homework and choose plants that will be happy in your region. We\u2019ll give this one a GP \u201cOK\u201d with a few points lost for being vague.<\/p>\n

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Xeriscape \u2013 landscaping whose time has come. With drought conditions or lower than average precipitation becoming more widespread across the country, it\u2019s time to revisit the principles of xeriscape gardening. Let\u2019s take a look at the \u201cclassic\u201d principles and we\u2019ll update them, Garden Professor style. Note: If you\u2019re growing food crops to supply your table […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[346,31361,31741],"class_list":["post-59243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-gardening","tag-the-garden-professors","tag-xeriscape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59244,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59243\/revisions\/59244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}