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Beat the Heat

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Beat the Heat With The Right Drought Tolerant Plants

Perhaps you have decided to devote more of your garden to drought-tolerant plants. These types of plants can be the key to gracefully weathering a sustained summer dry spell. Especially if you live with possible watering restrictions. There are many native and naturalized landscape plants that grow well under low-water conditions. Contact your local resources such as a botanical garden to help you identify the water-conserving plants that will readily grow in your area. Cooperative extension service are a major resource.

Beat The Heat With Mulches

Additional steps include the use of mulches to reduce soil temperature and evapotranspiration rates. Mulches will also insulate plant roots from summer heat. Weeds compete with plants for moisture. This makes that hated chore of weeding so vital. Keep in mind that fine textured organic mulches, such as pine needles and shredded bark, hold water better than coarse textured ones.

Taking Advantage Of Irrigation Systems

Now is the best time to plan and install the most effective drip irrigation system. Both soaker hoses and/or moveable micro-irrigation sprinklers will gently deliver water only to the roots of your garden plants. The drip irrigation systems equipped with point/source tubing with emitters “punched-in” where plants are located are the most efficient.

You also may want to reduce the amount of turf areas. They demand very high water use with standard sprinkler systems. Replace water demanding turf species with low to moderate-use species. Use turf grasses that may go dormant when unwatered but will green-up again when rainfall returns.

During the summer dry times, follow these water-wise principles:

  • Water all plants including lawn areas early in the morning to minimize evaporation losses.
  • Water all plants less frequently but more thoroughly. –
  • Remove weeds that compete for moisture and nutrients. –
  • Keep plants pruned and maintained to support optimum health.

Lastly, think ahead about implementing a thorough maintenance plan, and read up on environmentally friendly gardening practices. Enjoy a sound and flourishing water-wise garden this summer!

Overwhelming?  Give me a call and let an expert take car of it for you.

Drought Tolerant Planting

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Drought Tolerant Plantings Can Save The Day

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Finding exactly the right plants for the weather

Drought tolerant plantings,  your shrubs and plants, come in mighty handy for people with busy lifestyles. When you’re busy with a career, plant care may go on the back burner now and then. Likewise, when you’re busy raising children, caring for elderly parents, etc., you may not always get around to watering as much as you should.

Then there’s vacations

Then comes your precious vacation time, invaluable for relieving stress. If you leave your landscaping unattended for a trip during the summer, you can’t always count on rainfall for irrigation. As a consequence, while you may come home stress-free, you may find that the plants in your yard have experienced quite a bit of stress in your absence. That is, except for the drought-tolerant shrubs and other tough plants that we have to use.

In many locales in Oklahoma and Texas, great care must be taken when planning your epic landscape and garden.  A great landscaper, like yours truly, has the knowledge and experience to select exactly the right plants for your your situation.  Yards differ as to available shade.  They differ as to run off from neighboring sources.  Therefore the right plants that can flourish in your individual yard makes all the different.  Then we can get the right ones that have all the seasonal color that makes your creation a masterpiece.

We here at Gordon’s Landscapes LLC try to be on top of the assorted plants that can handle this kind of heat, and cold changes.

We do landscaping in Lawton, but also in Duncan, Elgin, Apache, Medicine Park, Marlow, Fletcher, Altus, Cache, or anywhere else where people want beauty. We can give you a work of beauty that can survive the sometimes harsh climate. Give us a call today.

Landscaping in different weather temperature  is a challenge if you are not installing regularly. New plants are coming out all the time.

Gordon’s Landscapes LLC      P.O.Box 2371   Lawton,Okla. 73502

(580)351-1876 call us for an estimate…..