If you haven’t made it to Lush Lean yet this year, you are missing out. Presenters have offered many helpful water-wise gardening and landscaping pieces of information.
Jackye Meinecke of Enchanted Gardens of Las Cruces recently shared key principles of achieving success in your gardening endeavors.
“At Enchanted Gardens, we are not all about sales; we want to help make successful gardeners,” Meinecke said.
Meinecke can tell you what edible plants work best for this area, and what grasses are most drought tolerant.
“To be a successful gardener, you have to have the right plants in the right places,” explains Meinecke.
It’s good to have different “zones” in your landscape, she says, in which you place plants with fellow plants that need the same type of nurturing.
“Plants that need more water can go in an ‘oasis’ zone closer to your home where they are less exposed to the heat,” said Meinecke. “Those requiring less water can go into an outer zone. Your yard does not have to be restricted to rock and cactus; you can have blooming plants native to this area or from similar climates.”
Plant placement in the yard matters if you want your garden to flourish.
“Even in your own yard, you have micro climates,” said Kathryn Hovey, who attended Meinecke’s Lush Lean workshop. “It takes time to learn what they are and to get used to those micro climates. Jackye emphasized our responsibility to use the water that we have wisely; in order to do that we have to choose the right plants.”
All Lush Lean workshops start at 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings at the Women’s Improvement Association Building, 340 N. Reymond Street at W. Court Avenue, on the east side of Pioneer Park.
For information, visit facebook.com/LushAndLean or the City Water Conservation website at las-cruces.org/waterconservation.
The next workshop will be April 24 with Dr. Natalie Goldberg explaining how to diagnose and manage plant disorders in ornamentals, vegetables and turf grass.
In the meantime, Meinecke is always happy to help with any planting questions you may have when you visit Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla.
You can reach Las Cruces Utilities at 575-528-3511 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Las Cruces Utilities provides gas, water, wastewater and solid waste services to approximately 100,000 Las Cruces residents.
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