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Impact Report
| For plan | Plant Management Systems: Urban Horticulture (Chaves County) |
| Date | November 2, 2010, 3:09 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Xeriscape Garden With guidance and assistance from the agriculture agent, the Chaves County Master Gardeners planted a demonstration xeriscape garden at the Spring River Park and Zoo in Roswell in September 2009. The purpose of the garden is the show the public the attractiveness of certain native and low-water use plants and to encourage the use of those plants in home and business gardens. The agent worked with NMSU’s horticulture specialist to secure plants from the NRCS Plant Materials Center in Los Lunas and to design the garden. The xeriscape garden had water problems throughout the summer due to equipment. Because of the extreme heat and lack of water, some of the plants died. The agent has worked with zoo officials and the water valves were replaced with a manual valve. The agent also worked with a Master Gardener that is a zoo employee and replaced all of the emitters on the drip system of the garden to allow the plants to receive more water. A trip was made to the NRCS Plant Materials Center to get plants to replace the ones that died. Dead plants were replaced in the garden with live plants. When the temperatures cooled off in the fall, most of those “dead” plants started to grow from the roots. Hopefully the garden will look much better next summer since the water problems have been corrected. This is a definite testimony to the hardiness of the xeriscape plants, which is the purpose of the garden. |