[Vision2020] Xeriscape program & tour this week

[Robert Dickow]

Boy, I recommend gardeners check out this xeriscaping idea. Years ago I
planted my beautiful perennial garden with lots of swamp plants (siberian
iris, trollius, joe pye weed, fillipendula... etc.) and my pocketbook really
felt the pinch when the summer water bills rolled in. I have been gradually
shifting real estate usage to dry plants (spuria iris instead of siberian),
grasses, etc.

Penny pincher that I am, I tend to save water for the perennials and neglect
the lawn, which goes quite brown by late summer, but pops right back when
autumnal sprinkles come. Lawns don't really die when they turn brown/yellow
for a while, remember.

I even planted a rock garden, but frankly, I have trouble growing rocks well
here in the Palouse, even with the spring rains. ;-)

Bob Dickow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "French" <dfrench@moscow.com>

COMING SOON: XERISCAPE PROGRAM & YARD TOUR!

If you're ready to reduce your landscape irrigation, learn how on Wednesday,
May 28, 7:30pm at the 1912 Center, in Moscow. Tim Eaton, of Prairie Bloom
Nursery, will present a program entitled "Xeriscaping and Beyond". The first
hour will cover basic principles of water-