Showing posts with label plants that require less water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants that require less water. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Pink Perfume Lavender Perfect for Small Yards

The Pink Perfume Lavender Plants are certain to make a show in your yard all summer long. Plant along your front sunny walk way and the Pink Perfume Lavender will greet your guests with its wonderful fragrance. Separate areas of your garden with a low growing hedge of Lavandula angustifolia 'Pink Perfume'  .

The Pink Perfume is perfect for small yardscontainer gardenscut flower gardens, and butterfly gardens. Use the rosy pink flower stems as cut flowers or dry for potpourris. Plant in well drained soil. The Pink Perfume Lavender is drought tolerant and blooms from May to September. Pink Perfume attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden.




Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Ways to Reduce Watering Plants

Tips to reduce watering:

- Mulch around plants with shredded bark mulch, aged compost mix or aged manure mix
- If you can't mulch large areas, spread a good layer of straw (not hay)
- Hoeing the ground around the plants brings moisture closer to the surface for the plants
- Plant perennials close together to shade the ground
- Use soaker hoses where needed instead of overhead watering
- When watering with a garden hose, water on the ground around the base of the plant and not the leaves on the plant
- Do any watering late evening or early morning
- Hold off any fertilize applications until the weather is cooler or it rains as plants will be less stressed

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