Candidimage Photography: Australian Garden Visit - Post Three Water Saving Garden

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Australian Garden Visit - Post Three Water Saving Garden

Australian Garden - Water Saving Garden

Dry Terrace

The Water Saving Garden features groups of plants with similar needs suitable for suburban gardens. This water saving garden comprises three distinct watering regimens, showcased in three unique terraces. Each terrace features plants and natural mulches they are dry terrace, the water-conscious terrace and the water wise terrace. The water usage of each terrace is marked by coloured watering cans 12 Blue, 8 Yellow, 4 Red the decreasing number indicating the terrace using the least to the most amount of water.

Views of the Dry Terrace garden beds

Low Water Terrace

The water saving garden gives the visitor invaluable information on our most precious resource of modern times water. There are wonderful signs erected through out five exhibition gardens, that highlight the use of natives plants and ways we can all use native plants in our own gardens. To help sustain home garden in these extremely dry times, we all need to re-think our gardens and be water wise. Implementing a few simple measures can make all the difference to the survival of our gardens.

Views of the low water terrace gardens beds

A very important step is plants selection for suitability to you area, suitability to your garden and to your water availability. Treating dry, water repelling hungry soil with a good quality cover of compost (compost increases the organic content of soil, which will help hold water) digging it through before adding a generous cover of mulch. This will not only benefit your soil but the health and well being of your plants. Catching and storing rain water and the use of grey water on lawns and non native plants, all these measures will help to grow a water saving garden.

Views of the moderate water terrace gardens beds