RE: No Summer Water

My garden is in its second year and it receives water once a week. Some of the plants will do fine with out summer water (even if they look a bit on the dry side), but other really need some extra water. The garden is mulched with gravel and the paths are the only places where I have no plants. Overall the lavenders (which I have a lot) and sages give the garden a nice "garden look" year round even when some other plants have gone dry. Nevertheless summer is not ,by far, the best time of year for my garden.
 
Alexandre
Algarve - Portugal


Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:24:04 -0700
From: benwiswall@pacbell.net
Subject: No Summer Water
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu


Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone on this list-serve has a garden that really receives no summer water, or only water from the occasional hose.  As we are entering the dog days, how does it look?  Does it look like, well, a garden?  Is the ground more-or-less covered with greenery, or is it mostly bare or mulched ground?
I'm concerned about water use in an arid land, and I have a small chaparral garden at our home which now in its third year receives very little summer water,and it looks OK, even in its summer quietude.  I would feel a bit deprived and thirsty, however, if the entire garden looked the same. 
What are anyone else's experiences gardening with or without water?
-Ben Wiswall
Simi Valley, CA

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