Gardening Blog Offers Tips and Ideas For Fall Garden Planting

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 20, 2009 – Fall is a perfect time to plant new shrubs and flowers in your garden.  In mild winter areas like California and the southwestern United States, fall can be a better time than spring to get perennials, trees and shrubs into the ground.  The cooler temperatures and occasional drizzles help new transplants get better established.  But with drought and water restrictions it is hard to know which plants look the best with the least amount of water.

A southern California gardening blog called theGardenPages Blog (http://www.thegardenpages.blogspot.com) is offering fresh advice, gardening tips and photos of what to plant now:  trees and flowering shrubs, screen trees and other perennial plants that look beautiful, can take the heat and will grow with little water.

Author Laura Zinkan notes:  "I wanted to share some of the unique and beautiful plants I have found that grow well here in the southwest.  And to show you can still have beautiful flowers and trees using western natives or other drought tolerant plants.  They not only save water but I find they save me time in garden maintenance too."

The blog has articles on flowering shrubs like Desert Willow, a western native that gets huge clusters of flowers loved by bees and hummingbirds and California Christmas Holly, a screen shrub that can live on rainfall alone.  There is also gardening information on drought tolerant succulent plants for your garden or patio containers, plus tips on how you can easily propagate plants to expand your collection for free.  Or learn which trees make good screen to turn your backyard into a personal hideaway.  And find ideas on where to get free or low-cost gardening supplies.  To read these articles and see photos visit http://www.theGardenPages.blogspot.com.

ABOUT THEGARDENPAGES BLOG:

theGardenPages blog (http://www.thegardenpages.blogspot.com) offers gardening help and photos of California and western native plants, beautiful and unique drought-resistant flowers or shrubs, succulents and cacti, composting and other green organic methods. Occasional garden news of interest or current events.