Three Reasons Shrubs are Perfect for Desert Landscaping
One of the easiest ways to beautify your landscaping is to use shrubs that have beautiful colors. Colorful shrubs help to add visual interest to your landscaping while shrubs can be used to create privacy, as specimen plants and to fill empty space quickly. If you are going to plant shrubs in a landscape where there is little water, then consider these choices.
Use Shrubs to Create Privacy
Privacy shrubs can be very useful for blocking views, noise, sun and wind. Consider the Japanese blueberry that has small white flowers in the spring before putting on black-blueberries later in the growing season. The evergreen Japanese privets are very clean shrubs making them an outstanding choice for use near pools and hot tubs. There are several varieties of Oleander with beautiful pink or salmon colored flowers that make great privacy shrubs.
Install Specimen Plants
Shrubs can make great specimen plants because of their shape and color. These shrubs encourage people to look at them because of their immense beauty. Consider using shrubs as topiary plants in your landscaping. Myrtle fans can easily be trained into a globe shape. Firethorn is easy to train to grow up walls, and its fragrant white flowers give way to reddish-orange fruit as the growing season progresses. Think about installing three or more types of plants close together to make specimen beds by using the shrub as a backdrop.
Enhance Desert Landscaping Quickly
Fast-growing shrubs are a great way to fill a large area quickly. Butterfly bush can grow up to 10 feet tall while producing beautiful fragrant plumes of flowers. Orange jubilee grows up to eight feet tall while producing long-lasting orange trumpet-like flowers. Bird of Paradise grows up to six feet tall and six feet wide in a single growing season, and it requires very little care throughout the growing season.
There are many shrubs that do extremely well in the desert, so make sure to include some in your landscape design in Las Vegas. They can be used to create natural privacy fences, trained into topiaries or used to fill empty spaces quickly.
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