Best Management Practices in Tahoe Gardening
November 7, 2007
John Cobourn, water resource specialist from UNR Cooperative Extension, and Eric Winford, environmental scientist from Nevada Tahoe Conservation District, talk about landscaping choices recommended for Lake Tahoe.
In the Lake Tahoe area there are two presentation gardens, which were built to educate homeowners about landscaping and gardening in the basin. They are open to the public and often hold classes and other public events intended to promote Best Management Practices and defensible space.
 Click on photo to see slide show of the North LakeTahoe Demonstration Garden. |
Use these plants in your garden:
Such plants require very little maintenance and provide wildlife habitat, including food and shelter. In addition, their roots spread and hold the soil in place, preventing erosion.
Turf and non-turf grasses: include bluegrass big, squirreltail, fescue (hard, sheep or blue), bluegrass Kentucky, fescue (chewings, red, tall). Grasses are low fire hazard plants when consistently irrigated and mowed.
Native and adapted shrubs: include woods rose, tobacco brush or snowbrush, snowberry, currant, wild strawberry, spiraea and serviceberry.
Groundcovers and vines: include kinnikinnick or bearberry, squaw carpet or mahala mat, manzanita pinemat, squaw carpet or mahala mat.
Flowers: include penstemon, phlox, Jacob’s ladder, coneflower, and forget-me-not.
Trees and small trees: include willows, quaking aspen, fir (white, red), pines, juniper western/Sierra.
To get a complete list of plants recommended for Lake Tahoe contact Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Visit: South Lake Tahoe garden
North Lake Tahoe garden
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