Olive Nursery

It's Xeriscape, not Zeroscape. It doesn't mean gravel and a few cactus. Somebody went to Phoenix where they have gravel yards and thought they could do the same here. Think about it: you could buy a vacant lot in Pheonix, pay the taxes and never hear from anyone for ten years. Here you would be fined over any 8 month period for not mowing it. We get too much rain! After five years enough dust will blow into the gravel to grow every weed and grass there is. The word was coined by the city of Denver in the sixties and defined as a lifestyle with conservation as a main goal.

Water Gardening usually means ponds, but in West Texas just the sound of water seems to cool us off. If you can't dig a hole maybe you'd like a concrete statuary fountain. We've got a wide selection and can special order from the main manufactuers. Our hardy water lilies will be here in Late April! Tropicals will come mid-June. Tropicals have serrated-edged leaves and should bloom every day into September, maybe October. It's best to repot them into bigger pots and feed them in March or April. We have food tabs or Ken Landon's special fertilizer he uses at the International Water Lily Collection on Park St.