Desert landscaping
If you think about switching your home Landscaping (either existing or new plantings measure should not be too harsh weather and Phoenix), the climate, so you think seriously about weather and climate only.
Living in the Phoenix area, know that they live in a desert. Ie, precipitation is incomplete and unreliable. In some years (eg 1905, with a record 19.73 inches), annual rainfall at Sky Harbor Airport for more than 15 inches. Autumn is generally less than 10 inches, with a record low of 2.82 inches in both 1956 and 2002. The average annual rainfall is some 8.29 inches.
Monsoon rains (rainy season in summer) offers similar reliability and low rainfall. The average rainfall in summer (July-September) averaged 2.77 cm. But 1984 was 9.56 inches, while in 1924, landed just 0.35 inches rain, the Sky Harbor Airport gauge.
Rain (and snow), the increase amounts to a heads-up to higher ground north and east of Phoenix.
Another aspect is the high evaporation and transpiration rates in our sunny, warm room. How did you drink too much water, so does your body hydrated, so that even plants.
This means that all you probably need some additional irrigation facility at any time during the year.
Against this background, it is important that all required landscaping seasonal color, plant size, location, views, and integration of activities at home, and in particular, each plant unique water. Excluding demand for water your plants will look like is almost certainly not as good, if winter's cold changes in the summer heat.
A good landscape architect will consider all these aspects, since they are a unique landscape for your garden or pool area create.
You can also create a water efficient landscape (which xerigraphy), and water demand due to decreased lower lawns suitable drought-resistant plantings, compost and floor coverings and using drip irrigation hoses or soak, improve the soil composition, and reduces maintenance costs. There are many Arizona native plants that can be used in such a landscape design. And you can set up plants for more than a sunny room on the dark side of your house.
Your landscape designer can also use a system timer irrigation, make sure you water plants in the early hours, water holding different groupings for different time periods and even eliminate watering if rainfall during the last 24 hours exceed a certain threshold.
And do not forget to check your landscape, since the use of water barrels or other water harvesting techniques to develop your landscape plan. These allow you to collect excess water during rainy periods and use of water for irrigation when the weather is dry.
Realize that there is so much easier to make attractive and cheaper, all these factors into landscape design process, rather than later individually address.
So, not only landscape, landscape design. The process is much more than just plants in the arid desert floor. And you will be happy in winter, when you refer to the summer and next year, as happy as this year thanks to some planning and commitment in a home landscape.
