Beginner Gardening: Drainage woes, 1 by dovebydesign

dovebydesign wrote:
I am looking at 'them there' hills in that picture thinking that in this area xeriscaping may well be 'zeroscaping' if it is as dry as them there hills look to be.

I know that desert like land often means water - water - water so the sprinkler system may well have been a good idea but if you have other problems and no experience then you may well have to bite the bullet and pay the money for the pros to come in and fix the problem, then you can landscape, in otherwords have them fix the drainage and the soil conditioning and then you take over from there. That might be a comprimise between the 2?

I am including a picture of the terrain where i used to live and then below a picture of a garden done in that terrain. Which looks somewhat similiar to your situation.


This message was edited Jul 2, 2007 6:23 PM