Receiving Your Plants Video Guide


Learn how to best care for your plants after receiving them from High Country Gardens in the video guide.

Receiving Your Plants from High Country Gardens

With The High Country Gardens Style of Xeriscaping, you can enhance the beauty, comfort and monetary value of your property with well chosen plants. Thoughtful placement of deciduous trees will shade the south and west sides of our homes and offices to keep the buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Combinations of other regionally suitable plants and water use focused on areas of your property where these plants have the most ornamental impact, will keep your water budget intact.

Use water harvesting to direct rain and melted snow run-off from roofs and hard surfaces into the soil around shade trees and planting areas. It’s free and it lets nature supplement your landscape’s water needs.

Resist the urge to replace thirsty lawn grasses with a hot patch of gravel. Instead, save water and gasoline by using low mow, low water dwarf fescue grass or native turf grasses like buffalo grass and blue grama. In parts of your yard that don’t have foot traffic, use herbaceous and woody groundcovers to carpet the area with their cooling foliage.

Read more How To articles by David Salman

A national speaker on the topic of Waterwise Gardening and Xeriscaping, David Salman has spent over 20 years in pursuit of better plants for western landscapes. David is the author of numerous magazine articles and writes the High Country Gardens catalog. He devotes considerable effort to breeding new perennials while searching for and evaluating the garden performance of new and unfamiliar native and adapted plants for the waterwise Western garden.

Download our planting guide (HCGPlantingGuide09.pdf)

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"How-To" Videos:

Receiving Your Plants from High Country Gardens
Planting Guide: Perennials
Planting Guide: Cacti & Succulents
Planting Guide: Agave
Planting Guide: Blooming Bulbs
Fertilizing Organically

To help you plant a healthy and colorful garden, watch these planting guide videos from our HCG president and chief horticulturist, David Salman.