Doctor Steuss wrote:When it comes time, and you are looking at plants, take a look at the Texas Sage. It is by far one of my favorites. Lantana are really beautiful too (but you have to cut them back in the winter). Also love the desert daisy, but everyone who has tried to grow them in Vegas that I know hasn't been able to get them to survive for more than a few years -- maybe you'd have better luck where you are.
I looked up Texas Sage and it does look great! I am familiar with desert daisies. I like them, too. I already have lantanas in the back yard. They do really well here and my wife loves them because they attract butterflies. So many variations and colors.
I think I will seek the help of a landscape designer to make final decisions. I'm also trying to find the best solution to reconfiguring my sprinkling system to a drip system.
Thanks for the tips, Doctor Steuss!
Taking notes here.
Anything else to recommend?
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I think, where you live, you have to deal with some heavy frost in the winter. That will probably make a big difference in the types of plants that will work for you.
Around here, the temperature drops below freezing only once in ten years or so and it makes national headlines. I'm wondering if evergreens, conifers, etc. would be the way to go in your neighborhood.
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I think, where you live, you have to deal with some heavy frost in the winter. That will probably make a big difference in the types of plants that will work for you.
Around here, the temperature drops below freezing only once in ten years or so and it makes national headlines. I'm wondering if evergreens, conifers, etc. would be the way to go in your neighborhood.
Thanks, Quasi.
In our part of the world, we've just come out of several years of drought. I do have Sage, Salvia and am going on my second try for Lavender. We're lousy with evergreens. Very nice so long as we're not on fire. ;-)
Hoping Steuss will say whether he prefers the Texas Sage to Lavender, and why, or if he's tried Lavender at all. I'm very interested in it for the fragrance and drying, and I've seen it grow at somewhat lower elevations.
High altitude gardening is no picnic, I can tell you that. Trial and error, trial and error, and hope the deer don't like it!
Thanks, again!
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I hadn't mentioned that particular article here, but I am well aware of the excellent work our good mutual friend Craig Criddle is doing with the Woods Institute and Stanford University, and have referred to his work on this forum several times. Here is one example. I have had several enjoyable phone conversations with him about his work, and have even had the occasion to converse with him in person about it, to my great pleasure and privilege. I couldn't be more proud of him and the work that he and his colleagues are doing there!
by the way, I just noticed for the first time today that you had PM'ed me, only to find you had already removed the message. I apologize for not having noticed that before you removed the message. The PM system on this forum doesn't seem to be working well for me for some reason. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.
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http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/ ... er1050.jpg(too big to show... 1050 px wide) A golf course in the Sun City Palm Desert community for older adults sits near barren land about 10 miles east of Palm Springs. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
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What priorities would be assigned to a water rationing system if push came to shove? The Republicans made no tax increase on the top one percent their line of no compromise and I imagine in my State private golf courses would be hands off on any water cutbacks.
What about California which has many people but a strong agricultural base? Will there be considerable clashes in a multi-decade drought?
What about is some other South West locales like Feenix and Alberkerky? Two different sets of political philosophies there.
I hadn't mentioned that particular article here, but I am well aware of the excellent work our good mutual friend Craig Criddle is doing with the Woods Institute and Stanford University, and have referred to his work on this forum several times. Here is one example. I have had several enjoyable phone conversations with him about his work, and have even had the occasion to converse with him in person about it, to my great pleasure and privilege. I couldn't be more proud of him and the work that he and his colleagues are doing there!
by the way, I just noticed for the first time today that you had PM'ed me, only to find you had already removed the message. I apologize for not having noticed that before you removed the message. The PM system on this forum doesn't seem to be working well for me for some reason. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.
That is some crazy smart science guy right there! I swear, he's going to save the planet some day. Hopefully his work will lend assistance to drought worn CA.
I honestly don't recall sending you a PM. Apparently I'm getting to old to remember what I did from one moment to the next.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
I couldn't be more proud of him and the work that he and his colleagues are doing there!
The PM system on this forum doesn't seem to be working well for me for some reason. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.
