Fall, August 26, 2016
Weekly Wave,
vol.
4,
no.
24,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
Fall,
August 26, 2016
Are you ready to imagine, design, and plant your water-smart landscaping? The UA Water Resources Research Center's new Desert Landscaping website has tools and tips to help. The mobile-friendly site emphasizes arid-adapted gardening and features a "Plant Selector" tool to help you find the right plants for your landscaping project.
The Desert Landscaping website builds on the WRRC's work to create the Desert Landscaping CDROM, first released in 1996. For this 2016 update, we are very grateful to the UA Campus Arboretum and to Pima County Regional Flood Control District for their technical advice as well as text and photo contributions.
Through the website, you can access details on over 600 plants and then narrow your search by selecting criteria such as plant type, seasonality, or place of origin. The "Design Concept" gallery will spark ideas and "Tips" pages highlight a great variety of information such as tips on water harvesting, invasive and problem plants, microclimates, pruning and fertilizing, and gardening to attract wildlife. Finally, test your plant knowledge using the "Plant Trivia" game or dive into the "Resources" pages to find links to other helpful websites.
This website, with numerous updated features, was made possible through support from Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions (WEES) as part of UA's Technology and Research Initiative Fund. We are grateful to the Communications and Cyber Technologies team within UA CALS for their work designing and implementing the website.
Access the Desert Landscaping website here