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High Country Gardens’ 2010 crop of water-wise plants

Posted by: Maven on January 12, 2010 at 3:34 pm

nativesFrom the Los Angeles Times:

High Country Gardens, based in Santa Fe, N.M., has a reputation for introducing enticing new water-wise perennial plants to American gardeners every year. Its main catalog features 300 plants that have been grown and evaluated in its nursery trial gardens.

President David Salman says High Country ships plants to customers in all 50 states; California is second only to Colorado for customer volume. While Santa Fe’s winters are decidedly colder than Southern California’s, its limited precipitation and hot summers are pretty similar to our gardening conditions. “My focus has always been on plants for the western garden,” he says. “Our approach is not only to conserve water, but to make the landscape more resource efficient.”

Salman is not a huge fan of the word “xeric,” which is the accepted term for low-water landscapes. “Some people call it ‘zero-scaping’ and equate it with one-inch of gravel with a yucca sticking out of it,” he says. “We like to focus on a green style of xeriscaping. That means creating habitat where possible, using organic methods and promoting healthy-living soil through the use of compost and natural soil amendments.” … “

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January 12, 2010 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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