About Landscape
This section of DaleRoose.com will be about my personal experience with landscapes especially the ongoing work at my home.
— Dale Roose
Learn about some common trees around Tucson.
Ground Covers
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
— Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
Watching landscaping shows on HGTV, a viewer might get the idea that the worst thing a person could have in a landscape is nature. Many attractive natural alternative to pavers and flagstones can make the surfaces permeable so that water and air can enter the soil. If we help the rainwater to soak in where it lands instead of dumping into storm sewers, we'll prevent the problems of erosion and flooding downstream. We'll also help plants and trees grow. If you don't want any plants and trees, I suggest visiting some well maintained gardens and old growth forests to experience the beautiful side of nature because, you just have to be there to understand.
More to come...