Beautiful Landscaping ideas for the summer months

Summer is the time when you love to see different plants and flowers blooming in your garden. Prepare a landscape for some drought resistant plants for this season. These plants require much less maintenance to do, less water and can tolerate the sunny and dry weather condition and yet fill your garden with colors and fragrance.

Ornamental grasses are great for your drought resistant garden. These are hard enough to withstand the harsh climate of the desert. This will bring color and enhance beauty of the landscapes. Some of these ornamental grasses are “The Blues Little Bluestem”, “Fountain Grass”, “Mexican Feather Grass”,” Blue Oat Grass”.

Go for the varieties of wildflowers available in your area which will give you year round of bright and beautiful flowers at different times. You can enjoy your garden with the flowers blooming around at the time when other seasonal flowering plants don’t bloom. Some of the types of wildflowers that you can grow are African daisies, Baby blue eyes, Indian blanket, Prairie smoke etc. These plants are good to start your landscape during the drought summer season.

When talking about the plants for the drought summer months other than the ornamental and wildflowers most people love planting shrubs. Shrubs or bush is a category of a woody plant which is different from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height. There are many shrubs that are drought and hardy but it requires plenty of water for the first two seasons so that the roots are well established underneath. Once the root has established well it can withstand many harsh and drought season. The prime planting time for the shrubs is September through mid-November. If you do so you will get the fragrance and the colors in your garden in the next summer.

Some of the commonly grown types of shrubs are:

• Mexican Bird of Paradise- This is semi evergreen foliage, requires moderate water once it is well established.

• Lantana- This is a fast growing green foliage shrubs with moderate water requirement. There are many varieties which usually come in many bright colors.

• Baja Fairy Duster- This gives green foliage, also required moderate water once established. Blooms in the spring and the summer months.

• Texas Sage- It blooms in the mid-summer and during the fall season. Foliage is grey in color. There are many varieties and all of them required moderate water

• Ocotillo- It blooms in the spring season with bright orange or red color flowers.

• Red Tip Yucca – This is considered to be an evergreen shrub.

• Arizona Yellow Bells- It blooms with the yellow color trumpet and really fast growing shrubs, requires less water to grow.

• Junipers- These are the coniferous plants comes is various sizes and shapes from tall trees to low spreading. They are evergreen and have needle like or scale like leaves.

• Cercocarpus- Also known as Mountain-mahogany are native of western United States and Northern Mexico. These shrubs can withstand semi-desert type climate.

However, before growing the above-mentioned shrubs it is always advisable to consult the local nursery for the expert advice. They will guide you in choosing the right shrubs with respect to the temperature, wind, amount of rainfall and other climatic conditions of the region.

Shrubs are well established now, the next thing you need to do is “Pruning”. The best time for pruning is late winter just before when the new growth begins. Pruning will put a lasting effect on your shrubs. So it has to be done at right time and at right place so that your plant grows beautifully all the year round.

Make your garden lush green for the summer with beautiful colors of evergreen shrubs, wildflowers and ornamental plants.

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