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The need to conserve water in the garden of dry climate, involves reducing the size of the lawn. The best way is by changing the way we address the lack design.Water garden dry climate forcing gardeners and landscape professionals to reduce the area of ??the garden taken by the lawn. The problem is that nothing can replace a lawn in the area in which a lawn. Small children can not play so safe on hard courts, you can not really play football on a wooden deck, and it is impractical to lie on a bed of ground cover like you would grass.Yet a garden with an area of ??90% grass is just as impossible as it is untenable in the arid and semi-arid areas like the Mediterranean, much of the western United States, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East. The only way forward is to rethink your concept of the garden away from large open space for smaller, more intimate between them. Here are some ways the problem can be addressed.
Areas of expansion
The width of the shrub and bush borders can be enlarged at the expense of grass. The custom of planting shrubs in a thin line on the edge of the grass, resulting in a lack of proportion between the two spaces. A wide edge on the other hand, creates more depth and perspective. Most shrubs can be grown to consume at least a quarter of the water needed for lawn and some plants such as juniper, pistachio Leucophylum or, on less land. Think of the economy when the range of 50 cm on the edge of the grass is replaced by a space about 2 meters wide.Designing fat ground cover
Plants for the conservation of water used in worship can form a transition zone between the lawn and shrubbery border. These can link good for trees and shrubs, especially if the texture of the leaves is similar to the upper floors. For example, asparagus densiflorus "Sprengerii" blends well with Juniper, Melaleuca, and other fine leaves of the bushes. The weak growth Cotoneaster species combine well with roses and other shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae such as apple, plum, hawthorn, and pyrocantha. The transition zones of vegetation can reduce lawn space of more than 20%. Add the rest areas
Adding a sitting area paving stones or decorative wood paneling brings together different parts of the garden, and makes a space more interesting and enjoyable, like a lawn patio limit the formula for common ground in the suburbs. Paved area seats is, of course, space, that does not consume water.What of synthetic grass?
Simply replace the lawn with fake grass, however, to convince the new products are the visual expression, is not likely to achieve satisfactory results over the long term, especially because the plastic can not replace or smell or touch the grass. However, the artificial turf could be a satisfactory way in a very stylized, minimalist garden design is modern, rough and angular in nature.


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