Maintenance Services - Investing in a Perfect Yard

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Lifestyle Landscaping

• Landscape Choices
• For Your Home
• Featuring
• Arid, Semi-Arid and Lush Efficient
• Landscape Styles

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What is Lifestyle Landscaping?

• There are several factors to consider when
  choosing the landscape style for your home
• Low Water Use - Desert friendly landscapes are
  the key to maintaining the beauty of the desert
  while conserving its most valuable resource -
  water.
• Function - Play area for pets and kids? Having
  barbecues? Watching birds butterflies?

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What is Lifestyle Landscaping?

• Maintenance - Would you rather relax in your
  garden or work in it?
• Aesthetic Appeal - Flowers, dramatic plant
  forms, birds and butterflies what makes you
  say oooh!
• Backyard Wildlife Habitat - Backyard habitats
  are vital to local wildlife who have lost
  habitat to building and development throughout
  the Coachella Valley. Learn about desert ecology
  in your own back yard!

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Lifestyle Landscapes Arid Semi-Arid
Lush Efficient

• Arid slow growth, dramatic plant forms, big
  flowers, low water use, very low maintenance
• Semi-Arid slow to moderate growth, dramatic
  plant forms, colorful flowers, low to moderate
  water use, low to some maintenance
• Lush Efficient faster growth, colorful
  plants, some turf area for recreation, moderate
  to high water use, moderate to high maintenance

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Arid

• Low to no maintenance
• Slower growing, low water use plants
• Often uses decorative rock or mulch
• May provide year round colors and blooms
• Interesting plant forms and textures
• Uses only 1/3 the water a turf lawn would use

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Semi-Arid

• Low maintenance
• Often uses decorative rock or mulch
• May include limited turf for entertainment or
  kids pets play area
• Mix of low and medium water use plants
• Uses only about half the water that a turf lawn
  would use

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Lush Efficient

• Higher maintenance
• May include limited turf for entertainment or
  kids pets play area
• May incorporate areas of faster growing, medium
  to high water use plants
• Maintenance of irrigation system is a must
• Uses about 2/3 the water that a turf lawn would
  use

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Turf Lawn

• Very high maintenance
• Turf often turns brown in hot summer temps even
  when watered regularly
• Turf does not fit the warm, beautiful desert look
  or ecology
• Maintenance of irrigation system is a must
• Uses about 3 times the water that a desert
  friendly landscape uses - higher water bills

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Beautiful Desert Landscapes
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Beautiful Desert Landscapes
Hot Springs Park (shown at left) features a path
with signs explaining the hydro-geological makeup
of the area. The path and fountain area showcase
beautiful desert landscaping. The Hot Springs
Park fountain is at the corner of Palm Dr. 8th
St. in Desert Hot Springs, CA.
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For more information and resources on desert
friendly landscaping, visit www.ayreslandscapesvcs
.com
Visit local parks and nature preserves to see
which plants and flowers grow naturally in your
climate. Many of these may be incorporated into
your desert garden.
Many cacti and succulents have large, gorgeous
blooms, and may send out several blooms at once.