Xeriscaping competition: vote for your favourite

Australians have learnt how to live with drought conditions. Click on the link to see some amazing xeriscaping transformations and vote for your favourite:
Xeriscaping competition

DecoR Pebble Garden Beauty Contest

DécoR Pebble Garden Bauty Contest

Water-wise garden designs play a crucial role in making our communities beautiful, and most of all, sustainable.
DécoR Pebble, Australia's leading supplier to decorative pebbles and stones, decided to run the 'garden beauty contest' to reward their customers who used pebbles from the Australian Natural Stone range to create a garden that displays water-wise garden principles.

To vote for your favourite garden, simply click on the picture below and you will be redirected to the page containing the TOP 5 etnries.





You can vote 05-May-2007 until 24-May-2007 5pm!

when are our gardens as waterwise as they can possibly get?

It is a fact that we have to be very waterwise during this period of harsh drought. Many of us are struggling to keep our previous gardens against all odds. While gardening is considered a relaxing and calming hobby, lately it has been nothing more but a nerve-racking pastime.

A lot of money, time, efforts, tears and sweat are being invested into ensuring that our gardens become as sustainable and waterwise as they should be. Many come to the stage where there is not much that can be done apart from demolishing the current garden and start from scratch. Easier said than done! All that time and effort and sweat.But what can we do? Has it come to the stage where the only reality is either watching your garden, your tour de force, die or do you destroy it yourself and create a waterwise garden? Are these the only options? Who knows? It is perhaps safe to say that in some regions in good old australia, this may be the only two options. There is only so much that gardeners can do to make their gardens waterwise. Sooner or later it will come to the stage where nothing more can be done; any more work done becomes nothing more than a drain on our already limited natural and personal resources.

To find out the latest hints and tips on how to make your garden more waterwise, click on the link: xeriscaping: creating sustainable gardens

To see images of successfully transformed gardens, click on this link: xeriscape gardens

Xeriscape Landscape: australian garden

In an attempt to create a landscape that conserves our precious and limited water supplies, Vermont resident Geoff has transformed his, once beloved, tennis court into a Xeriscape landscape. While this landscape features a dry creek river bed, very fancy, it also includes two golf greens, even fancier. Apart from the very practical and obvious benefits as a result of the two golf greens, Geoff's garden also preserves water, protects our fragile ecology and promotes the use of the sometimes undervalued beauty and practicality of Australian flora. While this landscape is absolutely breathtaking it presents the ideal way to use water wisely.

What motivated Geoff?
Sufficient water supply is increasingly becoming a fundamental issue for the future prosperity of our nation. Rising population figures have increased the demand on our already limited supplies. In addition, seasonal fluctuations in rainfall and periodic droughts are signals that a change is due desperately.

The effect of climate change is expected to have extensive effects on gardens and landscapes. Predictions that you may have heard of are not mere sci-fi-outlooks. We all have become aware of some of the effects, with hardly any rainfall and periods of summer drought and bush fires.

The Xeriscape landscape that was once a tennis court is a dry creek river bed and is based on the principles of the fairly new phenomenon of Xeriscaping. As such, the landscape is founded on sensible horticultural principles, which help save water. In conjunction with his landscape designer, Geoff has been able to design a landscape that is easy to maintain, minimises the occurrence of weed and uses less water and fertilisers.

To read more and see images, click on the link: Xeriscape garden design