The document provides step-by-step instructions for implementing xeriscaping to conserve water in landscaping. It recommends selecting drought-tolerant plants, improving soil quality with compost and mulch, grouping plants by water needs, checking irrigation systems, and reducing irrigated turfgrass. Xeriscaping can be done gradually and save water, time, energy and money while creating an attractive landscape.
Xeriscaping (often incorrectly spelled zero-scaping or xeroscaping) is landscaping and gardening that reduces or eliminates the need for supplemental water from irrigation.
Native Landscaping info and Water Conservation info for presentation for Rockdale Intermediate schools. They needed a speaker from the Master Naturalists chapter we are part of to come discuss use of Native Plants and Water Conservation in the Garden Space. This is the information we provided as a speaker and stayed to discuss volunteer projects as well.
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Xeriscaping (often incorrectly spelled zero-scaping or xeroscaping) is landscaping and gardening that reduces or eliminates the need for supplemental water from irrigation.
Native Landscaping info and Water Conservation info for presentation for Rockdale Intermediate schools. They needed a speaker from the Master Naturalists chapter we are part of to come discuss use of Native Plants and Water Conservation in the Garden Space. This is the information we provided as a speaker and stayed to discuss volunteer projects as well.
Northwest Arkansas Rain Gardens
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
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Step By step Xeriscape - Washington State University
1. Step-by-Step Xeriscape
A well-planned xeriscape can be colorful and beautiful while conserving water and saving you time,
energy, and money. Proper plant selection and efficient irrigation practices are the key. You need
not rip out your existing lawn and garden and start all over. Xeriscape can be a gradual process
with relatively inexpensive, weekend-manageable projects.
Consider plants that are attractive, noninvasive, and relatively easy to grow. There are a lot of
books and websites out there, and if you don't find what you need, ask the nursery or landscape
experts. Find out the sun/shade requirements, cost, maintenance needs, and water requirements
of the plants you're considering. Ask also about flower color and blooming time, leaf color and
shape.
To conserve water, choose plants that can tolerate drought after they are established. All plants
require regular watering until their roots are established. For perennials, this means that they will
need water on a regular basis at least during their first growing season. Trees and shrubs may
require regular irrigation for up to three years after transplanting. The amount of water that you will
need to apply will also depend on your climate, soil type, and sun exposure. It is affected by
cultural practices, including how you water your plants, whether or not you use mulch, and where
windbreaks such as fences, walls, and other vegetation, are located.
Some Suggestions To Help You Get Started
Improve water-holding capacity of the soil by mixing in coarse materials such as compost and
barnyard manures.
Eliminate weeds to prevent them from competing with your desirable plants for water and
nutrients.
Use mulches between shrubs, flowers and in the vegetable garden to conserve moisture. Wood
chips or bark chunks, used without plastic or fabric, make a good mulch. These decorative
materials allow air and water penetration, yet keep the soil cool. Heavier bark chunks are best in
strong wind areas. Apply these mulches at least four inches deep to conserve water, as well as to
discourage moisture loss and weeds. Over a period of time, materials closest to the soil will begin
to break down to improve the soil. Add new chips after a few years.
Rock or stone mulches stay in place more effectively in windy areas but absorb more heat and may
scorch root or leaves of heat sensitive plants. Avoid large areas of gravel and plastic. While rock-
covered areas may reduce water needs, they also increase heat radiation and result in wasteful
surface run-off of natural rainfall. Black plastic under shrubs and trees creates oxygen starvation,
causing these plants to develop shallow roots just beneath the plastic. Quality landscape fabric
should be strong, breathable, and allow water to flow through it. It may not be practical in windy
areas.
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2. Group flowers and other plants so the yard is organized into different water use
zones. Grouping or "zoning" plants with similar water requirements allows you to
meet their high, medium, or low-water needs so some plants in the group are not
overwatered while others are underwatered.
Before you water, dig down and find out if the soil is dry. Don't gauge water needs
on soil surface appearance.
Check your sprinkler system and get the most out of every gallon of water that you apply to your
landscape:
• Adjust sprinkler heads to point water where it is needed. In some cases, a different type of
head may be in order. Most sprinkler systems are designed to water a lawn, but often they
overlap and irrigate shrubs, trees and flower gardens that need less frequent watering. You
may need to change entire portions of your sprinkler system to gain control over location and
frequency of watering.
• North exposure lawns do not need as much water as south or west exposures. Change your
sprinkler system to occasionally skip waterings on north exposures, and to provide more water
to sunny areas.
• Adjust your automatic system’s controller throughout the season based on plant watering
needs (i.e. less water in the spring and fall). Install a rain shut-off device if your
system does not already have one.
• Most systems sprinkle in a circle or semi-circle pattern. Change your lawn to fit the
sprinklers. Do away with corners that often are skipped. In place of lawn, consider
ground covers that, once established, require little or no water. Creeping junipers,
sedums and the old-fashioned hen-n-chicks do the job well.
• Research an inexpensive, labor saving drip or soaker water system for non-turf areas.
A healthy lawn uses less water and is more drought tolerant.
• Deep water your lawn to 6 inches. Deeper roots are less affected by the heat of summer.
• Apply a minimum amount of organic fertilizer to your turf to avoid additional water use and
increased mowing as a result of too much nitrogen. The most important time to fertilize your
lawn is in late fall around Halloween using a low nitrogen fertilizer.
• Mow your lawn to a height of 2-3 inches. Grass cut to this height helps shade and cool the soil
so that less water is required and fewer weeds will germinate.
• Routinely de-thatch and aerate turf to assist water, nutrients, and oxygen in getting to the root
zone. Thatch should not exceed ½ inch.
Reduce irrigated turfgrass areas especially on steep slopes, south and west
exposures and narrow parking strips.
• Remove turf from narrow, hard-to-water strips and replace it with pretty,
drought-tolerant plants.
• Remove turf from between and behind shrubs; replace it with mulch.
• Remove a few feet of the grass along the driveway and sidewalk. Plant these areas with non-
thirsty ground cover plants, small shrubs or perennial flowers. This allows these buffer areas to
3. soak up water from lawn watering that normally would fall on the pavement and run off into the
street.
• Replace lawn on steep slopes with a rock garden, tiered wall, or low-spreading evergreens. As
with pavement buffer plantings, the water that runs down the slope from other parts of the yard
will be captured by these plants.
Here's an easy way to convert a lawn to other ground covers:
1. Outline the desired area with a flexible hose or rope.
2. Use glyphosate (Roundup, Kleenup) to kill the grass in the area you wish to convert. Allow
seven days for the grass to turn off-color. Plant low water requiring ground covers and spaced
them according to the type and size used. The glyphosate will not injure these new plants.
Creeping junipers are ideal because they give year-around cover and tolerate drought well.
3. Leave dead grass between plants. Cover with a four-inch mulch of woodchips. The dead grass
helps reduce erosion, especially on slopes. It also provides temporary anchor for the wood
chips.
4. To ensure long-range weed control, install breathable fabric available in garden centers. Add
enough mulch to hide the fabric. Don't use black plastic. It smothers roots and increases water
run-off.
5. If you have an underground sprinkler system, install inexpensive shut-off valves in the line that
enters the converted area. Leave sprinkler heads in place. This will allow you to water the new
plants as needed, but gradually "wean" them to little or no supplemental water.
Some helpful internet links:
http://www.wsu.edu/~lohr/wcl/
http://www.spokane-
county.wsu.edu/spokane/eastside/Sustainable%20Landscaping/Sustainable%20Landscaping.htm
http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/Xeris/xeris1.htm
Source: Washington State University Extension, Oregon State University Extension, Colorado State University Extension
Walla Walla County Master Gardeners, WSU Extension, 328 W. Poplar, Walla Walla, WA 99362, 509-524-2685
Extension programs and employment are available to all without discrimination. Evidence of noncompliance may be
reported through your local Extension office.