are there any ways of conserving water in your landscape? what are the preferred soil and plants?

Question

what palnts are best suited if you want to conserve water in your lawn? What type of soil is preferred?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

What you are really looking for is to Xeriscape your yard. Ditch the lawn, if you really need a green space, try astroturf, no water synthetic lawn, like at minigolf places, only you can get a much nicer quality. Or just limit the grass area to what you need if you have children or like to have a grassy area to play soccer or football in, keep what you need and will use loose what you dont. Definately go to a local garden center and discuss your goals with them and try and choose local plants(including your grass if poss. or a drought tolerant kind like Buffalo Grass), and make sure you put them in an area appropriate for their growth full sun shade etc. You may also want to check with your city see if they have any programs in place to help make your garden more water efficient, there are a lot of municiple programs in place especially in drought prone areas of North America. Below is a great starters website. As for grass, it is suppose to be long and lucious, we feed it a ton of water and fertilizer to grow, then as soon as it does we cut it. Thats a pretty big waste in my mind, especially if you arent every going to use it for anything but push a lawnmower over so loose the lawn, and go for something more intresting.

Answer 3

The best plants are whatever is native to your area. Native plants are used to the soil and the amount of water your area usually receives in rainfall. Most types of grasses are good also. Once they get established the don't call for a lot of water. Look around in your area and see what the county has planted on the corners of intersections and in the road medians.

Answer 4

You should choose plants in cactus family. There are a lot of beautiful plants nowadays. And ask from a plant seller for the plants that survives even without watering . My neighbor used cactus family plants in their landscape in front of their house and instead of using bermuda grass, they just scattered some gravel and big stones and rocks plus some spikey plants that doesn't need watering.So even on summer heats, the plants still survived.

Answer 5

it actually depends on what type of landscape you have in mind. if you go all out on cacti or those plants that can withstand low water intake then conserving water would not be a problem. my way to conserv water is to recycle water! when i wash my vege and fruits, i keep the water for reuse and water my plants. if you have small plants try putting/hanging them under bigger plants or under trees.

Answer 6

Plant Cacti!