Phoenix Irrigation

Drip Irrigation Allows Better Landscaping in AZ

Sure, your xeriscaping landscaping makes use of only plants that are easily acclimated to the harsh desert climate. The idea that your desert landscape needs no moisture assistance is all wrong. It isn’t zero-scaping, which will never be beautiful and cost you far more in maintenance time and reinvested money. For your curb appeal and backyard landscaping around outdoor living spaces to shine – you need professionally installed drip irrigation systems. Desert Crest designs and installs Phoenix irrigation, and in the suburbs.

There are many ways that having drip irrigation for your desert landscaping in AZ to be lowers your maintenance requirements and maximizes vigor and beauty of even drought lovers like cactus. When your new plants arrive on your property, they are happily living in a container where at the nursery that just left, they received just the right amounts of water and fertilizer to grow so handsomely. At this point their roots are acclimated to soilless medium designed to protect against problems in container growing. Now these same roots must adjust to the vast difference of living in your ground soil.

Without irrigation, new plants don’t thrive but struggle to survive.

Extreme changes in temperature both hot or cold reduces the vigor of your new xeriscaping plants in a hurry, lowers their immune system to pests, disease and element damage, without moisture assistance from drip irrigation. Just being moved from the nursery container to being planted in natural soil is sort of like going to the moon without a suit, adding further hardship by the removal of the consistent moisture they have always known increases the effects of this stress. The result is that your xeriscaping landscaping will take longer to adjust, not grow vigorously and produce far less color from bloom. It will also increase the possiblities of death by moisture starvation.

For anyone living in the desert around Scottsdale or Phoenix, irrigation is only an expensive or wasteful landscaping element for above ground sprinklers like those needed to maintain lush green lawns. Drip irrigation emits only small amounts of water below the surface where plants instantly absorb it through their roots and efficiently put that moisture to good use to looks their best, bloom abundantly and resist ailments like pests, disease and cold or drought damage.

Drip irrigation systems lower your hours of required yard work tasks.

With a Desert Crest installed Phoenix irrigation system, you’ll never have to worry about when you should apply more fertilizer to your landscape plants. We use a special fertilization system that works on a time with your irrigation. This highly cost effective method of providing just the right amount of nutrition to your prized landscape plants also will reduce the delight of any weeds that sprout in your planting beds. Once again, the application is only at the roots of the landscape plants and quickly absorbed, leaving the weeds without added nutrients to become more vigorous. This results in far less weeding compared to the traditional methods of fertilizer application above the surface.

For a free consultation on adding beneficial drip irrigation to your new Desert Crest landscaping in AZ, call (623) 780-8900. We’ll be able to address any concerns you may have over the use and operation when we visit your home.