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1. Xeriscaping| Xeriscaping| All you need to know about xeriscaping| conserve water with xeriscaping Xeriscaping refers to landscaping preserves water and helps protect our beautiful and fragile environment. The fundamental principles of Xeriscaping include planning & design, soil analysis, practical turf areas, plant selection, irrigation, mulc...
2. Drought Tolerant Plants for Low Water Landscapes When most people think xeriscaping - the use of drought-tolerant, low water-use plants - they think cactus.  And who wants a yard full of prickly, unfriendly cactus?  (Yes, I know some of you do.  This page is for those who don't...me...
3. Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. ~Willa Cather~ One of the most diverse ecosystems in North America, the tallgrass prairie is also one of its most endangered. Less than 1% of the original extent...
4. Everything you always wanted to know about succulent and xeriscape plants Soekershof; Private Mazes & Botanical Gardens in South Africa is the original breeding place of the South African cactus trade. In one of the historical gardens the oldest cactus of South Africa (Anno 1910) is still growing strong. The gardens displa...
5. Xeriscaping   Xeriscaping is the practice of landscaping using drought-tolerant plants. The term derives from the Greek word, xeros, meaning "dry," and scape, meaning "scene". Hence, xeriscaping literally means dryscaping, or "dry s...
6. How to Grow and Eat Prickly Pear Cactus Plants (Opuntia) Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) are useful in the landscape for dramatic impact, adding a southwestern feel to any landscape. Opuntia cactus also have edible pads and provide delicious red cactus pears.
7. Natural Gardening in Nebraska Natural gardening means different things to different people. For purposes of this page, I'm going to define it as gardening that meets some or all of the following goals: 1. Uses organic techniques 2. Uses primarily native plants, or hardy, low mai...
8. Easy Natural Garden I define a "natural garden" in my situation as one that requires little weeding and no watering, contains many native plants, and attracts birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. I'll be working on this lens for a while--I have much informatio...
9. Organic Gardening More and more people are recognising the tremendous benefits and appeal of organic gardening. Instead of trying to fight nature they're finding it far more sensible to work with mother nature and reap the ecological benefits. Hopefully you'll discove...
10. Books on Gardening Below you'll find lists of books on lots of different gardening subjects. I've read quite a few of these, and own several of them, so I'll give you my opinions on those. Also, just for fun, I've added some really great YouTube gardening videos near...
11. Daylilies If you don't have daylilies growing in your garden yet, you don't know what you're missing!  They're incredibly beautiful, and come in a rainbow of colors, and even more important, they're extremely easy to grow.  They're vigorous, hardy pe...
12. Easy Gardening. Low Maintenance, Low Water, Low Stress     After many years of back-breaking work in my various gardens, I have come to believe (for many reasons I will get to along the way) that the low maintenance and low water garden philosophy is the best possible alternative.  My...
13. Five Tips on Saving Water Using Xeriscaping Water bills, today, cost a lot of money. You will want to save some money by using less water. However, you seem to have a garden that uses up a lot of water and keeping the costs down seems to impossible. The solution is simple - Xeriscape your gard...