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"The right plant in the right place"

"The right plant in the right place""The right plant in the right place"

Designer's Notebook--A Beautiful Garden Starts Here!

The 3 P's of Landscaping Success

Plan...

Prepare...

Prepare...

Perennial Garden Consultants Boutique Maintenance planned and planted a refresh of this front garden

Your planting design is going to help you (and/or your landscaper or gardener) with the prep. How? Because a well-thought out design takes the guesswork out of your project. You have your square footage, you know exactly what's going in and what's coming out. Plants are sited in the best situation. Structural  and hardscape elements are installed first.

Prepare...

Prepare...

Prepare...

Proper irrigation is crucial in Mojave Desert landscapes. Photo Perennial Garden Consultants.

Irrigation is an important part of the preparation phase. Using your custom planting design you and/or your gardener can easily configure and install the irrigation system. 

If renovating, existing plants or rock may need to be removed. Depending upon the plants selected, planting areas will likely require preparation with soil amendments.

Plant!

Prepare...

Plant!

Select plants with healthy root systems, not pot bound. Photo Perennial Garden Consultants

Why waste time and money constantly replacing plants that fail or never really look right? With your well-thought-out design and customized plant list in hand, feel confident that your efforts will yield the best results not just now, but also in the years to come!

A big tomato harvest from a client's desert garden. Photo by Perennial Garden Consultants

Time is Running Out for Tomatoes!

Tomato season comes early and goes quickly in the Vegas Valley. But why? Because with the onset of daytime temperatures in the 90's combined with warmer overnight temps, tomato plants stop producing flowers. No flowers=no fruit. Try cool-season, small-fruited varieties for best success in our challenging climate! 

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Penstemon parryi, Parry's penstemon. Photo by Perennial Garden Consultants.

Native Plants

Do you have a spot for one of these native plants in your landscape?


Desert globemallow Sphaeralcea ambigua 

Flowering perennial used as a small shrub (about 3' X 3') with flowers in shades of orange and pink. Cut back after flowering (but wear gloves to protect skin from fine leaf-hairs that could be irritating).


Firecracker penstemon Penstemon eatonii

With bright red tubular flowers in early spring, firecracker penstemon is a must for those who enjoy hummingbirds in the garden.


Creosote Larrea tridenta 

A medium to large shrub that brings the fragrance of desert rain right into your backyard! Deep, infrequent watering is the key to growing this tough, beautiful plant.


Desert milkweed Asclepias subulata 

The perfect vertical accent for sunny hot spots, and like all milkweeds, supports monarch butterflies!


Apache plume Fallugia paradoxa 

The flowers are pretty on this medium to large shrub, but still more interesting are the feathery seed heads that follow. Blowing in the breeze, they seem to glow when backlit by the sun.


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I advocate for the use of native plants in home landscapes partly because one couldn't ask for more carefree and beautiful plants than the trees, shrubs, and perennials already adapted to our extreme summertime temperatures and lean, alkaline soils here in the Mojave Desert. By opting for native desert plants instead of thirsty lawns and non-natives, homeowners save not only water, but time and money as well. 

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