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How dry can your garden grow?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 13, 2009 at 7:38 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Not enough water. Budgets getting tight. The combination makes it the perfect time to plant vegetables and drought-tolerant flowers from seed.

Happily, the very plants that fit nicely into a drought-tolerant garden – native flowers – are ones that are relatively easy to start from seed. Native plants, by their nature, have adapted to the Bay Area’s Mediterranean climate of wet winters and dry summers. There has also been a recent focus on creating hybrid varieties of vegetables and flowers to achieve certain goals. These hybrids increase the ability of plants to withstand disease, to handle more challenging environmental conditions such as poorer soil or less moisture, and to make do with less heat.

As with any garden plot, choosing plants you’ll start from seed means assessing the sun or shade areas where these plants will find a home, as well as the space they’ll need. If you’re choosing a shrub or perennial, bear in mind its size at full maturity. With annuals, you have more flexibility, given their relatively short life span. And of course many natives, especially annuals, can be grown in pots.

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May 13, 2009 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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