Desert Landscaping

If you ever have been to Dubai or Abu Dhabi or Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Cairo or Sharjah or other such Middle Eastern cities and capitals or seen their pictures, you would know that living in a desert country isn’t equivalent to getting scorched under the sweltering heat in an arid landscape, bereft of trees.

Rather cities like Dubai are like an emerald island in the heart of a golden sandy topography and the eye popping landscaping of these cities can give any western city, which is famed for its beauty a run for its money.

The mesmerizing outdoor beauty of these desert cities and desert neighborhoods can be attributed to desert landscaping – a specially developed sub genre of landscape gardening targeted at the designing needs in inclement climates.

Desert landscaping involves the correct and appropriate choice of plants or flora that can survive in the harsh heat and dry conditions of a desert area. They need scarce water and can withstand the inclement weather. Flowering Plants and trees which look beautiful, but can grow only in mild weather will simply perish in a desert garden.

There are huge varieties of shrubs and plants which can prosper in a desert garden and impart a cosmetic facelift to your landscape. The popular picks are fairy duster, purple sage, oleander, flowering cactus, tall palm trees and date trees among others.

They are low maintenance, hassle free, and require watering only once a day; can do without much petting and pampering and tender handling; blossoms into colorful blooms many times a year and can prosper for years. Desert plants also hardly require much fertilizers or organic/inorganic compost. Desert shrubs, flowers, bushes and trees are also resilient and hardy and will not wilt under the constantly shining scorching sunlight.

Conservation of precious water is an important aspect of desert landscaping. With a little help from science and a bit of prudent planning, you can enhance the beauty and add color to desert landscaped gardens while maximizing the use and conserving the precious commodity of water.

Utilize every drop of water through intelligent, efficient and widespread irrigation. Contrary to popular belief, a small pond can solve your water woes in a desert landscaping instead of complicating it.

Include an inclined plane in your garden placed strategically so that when it rains, the rain water can flow down on to the plants or into the irrigation channels.

Plants which require similar quantities of watering should be grouped together.

Thus you can create your oasis and get ready for mass adulation.