#Arizona SRP customers can get two free desert-friendly, fast-growing trees by attending a Zoom workshop hosted by Trees Matter. The workshop covers how to select, plant and care for your trees. After attending, you can claim your two new tree saplings.

#Xeriscape #DesertLandscaping #Drought

https://www.srpnet.com/energy-savings-rebates/home/shade-tree-workshop

The front yard prairie project is progressing nicely! #gardening #yxe #xeriscape (eventually. Right now, I have to water all the time!)

#HOA legislation trending. Passed #COLeg allows homeowners in #CO to swap their grass lawns for landscaping that needs less water to maintain, requiring HOAs to accept the alternative landscaping.
#xeriscape
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1591540

Succulent flowers today
#succulents #flowers #XericGardens #xeriscape

This is not a surprise, but it should serve as a significant wake-up call to our fellow Phoenicians. We must each do our part to help with this challenge. For my part:
1. Xeriscaped 90% of my landscaping. (1/2)
#xeriscape
2. Grass is watered through underground soaker line and controlled electronically with weather adjustments
3. Installed rain collection system for landscape and garden irrigation
4. Condensate collection into the rain collection system.
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Last year's xeriscape installation is busting out in blooms!
#xeriscape #penstemon #pussyToes #flax

My #silentsunday Lots of rain in #sanantonio grew my front yard tree canopy to kiss the #xeriscape

Our irises - originally gifted from our neighbor’s clumps some years ago - are blooming spectacularly thanks to the winter rains. These are the first three to fully open.

#flowers #irises #BeardedIris #xeriscape

Lawn wars consume America's neighborhoods https://www.axios.com/2023/04/30/lawn-wars-mow-may-bees-pollinator-turf
#lawn #grass #turf #water #nomow #lowmow #nature #environment #xeriscape

For #FloweringFriday a look at flowering Dutch bulbs and poppies at the very front of the yard interplanted with rock purslane.
#xeriscape #XericGardens #flowers

The Penstemon family contains some amazing plants. I planted Rocky Mountain penstemon last year and they kept all their green leaves beneath blankets of snow and days of sub-zero F temps. The Bridge penstemons also retained some green on their leafy stems. Both have new, bright green growth hiding below.
#plants #gardening #xeriscape

For #FloweringFriday …
Front yard happy xeric perennial beds.

#flowers #daffodils #xeriscape

This Bridge Penstemon I planted last year is looking a bit sad.😢 But spring is just around the corner. Soon, it will be all scarlet flowers and hummingbirds!
#gardening #xeriscape

beware the Berkely sedge. https://pacifichorticulture.org/articles/berkeley-sedge-is-eurasian-grey-sedge/ #rewilding #forestry #forest #xeriscape #nativeplants

@immersfer I wish everyone did this! Pesticides are incredibly damaging to the biodiversity in our garden.

I can confirm that planting native flowers, shrubs and trees makes such a big difference!

When we moved to the Interior of British Columbia, Canada and we got an actual yard, we started to follow #Xeriscape principles. I'm so happy with it!

https://okanaganxeriscape.org/about-xeriscape/what-is-xeriscape/

#biodiversity #gardening #pollinators #pnw #climate #nativeplants #BCpoli

The very best things I did when I decided to get into beekeeping was to take the local college course and to join the local beekeeping club.

The instructor who is also the club president and the regional inspector has a deal with the big box stores that when (training a new fork life driver..) the spilled pallets of pure white sugar are given to him if he cleans it up.

As the inspector, he is very conscious of safe food for the bees for early spring. Then at the club meetings they raffle off the sugar and other things. There is always more sugar than people so everyone gets some anyway.

Today, the raffle proceeds were for the non-profit Elk Root Conservation Farm that is doing so many wonderful things for the community including providing food for at-risk community members, bee research, paid internships for students, and more.

I ended up with 5 packages of organic pollinating flower seed packets and 10 gallons of sugar, tons of education and information, networking and of course cementing friendships with these people. This is the way.

https://elkrootconservation.org/
https://fundraising.westcoastseeds.com/

#prepping #FoodSustainability #LocalFood #community #MutualAid #conservation #SeedLibrary #xeriscape #HabitatRestoration #apiary #OrganicGardening #BeeKeeping

After the rain (or between…more due later today) the yard greens out and the narcissus pokes it’s head out. I’m glad to have interplanted them with the native buckwheat.
#WinterBackyard #NativePlants #xeriscape #DroughtTolerant

Going to be time for a party here soon. 😀 #landscaping #hardscape #xeriscape

#plantlove #gardenlove #xeriscape

#SanDiego #xeriscape

I'm in the early planning stage of swapping out thirsty non-native plants in my yard for hardy local species. I am not a gardener, I don't want to be a gardener. I want to dig holes, plant plants, and watch them take care of themselves. Anyone know of a like-minded group in Southern California with similar goals?