The brochures listed below can also be found at the three Glendale Libraries or mailed upon request by completing this on-line form.
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Landscape Plants for the Arizona Desert: A Guide to Growing Plants
More Than 200 Low-Water-Use Plants –
This colorful brochure has information on more than 200 low-water-use trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines and accents. The plants are listed by common and botanical names in an easy-to-read chart. The chart lists such things as the plant’s height and width, flower season, flower color, cold weather hardiness, growth rate and more. Click here to download an online version. |
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Xeriscape: Landscaping with Style in the Arizona Desert –
A step-by-step guide for planting, installing and caring for low-water use landscapes. Several colorful pages with many different ideas and examples of Xeriscapes. Click here to download an online version. |
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Landscape Watering by the Numbers –
As a guide for watering in the Arizona Desert, this easy-to-follow brochure will provide you with the information on how to water efficiently, maintain healthy plants and save water throughout the year. Click here to download an online version. |
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The Complete Guide to Home Water Management –
Are you using a lot of water? This brochure acts as a tool for conducting a home water audit and as a guide to help you become familiar with water conservation possibilities for your home. |
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Tales from the Garden –
Over time a garden takes on a variety of shapes and forms, touching people’s lives in very interesting ways. Tale of the Garden is designed to tell stories of just a few of the 1,000 plants found at the Glendale Xeriscape Botanical Garden.
Click here to download an online version. (pdf) |
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Safeguarding Our Drinking Water from Landscape Irrigation Systems —
This Glendale brochure gives illustrations of various types of vacuum breaker assemblies and the code requirements for their installation. A vacuum breaker assembly should be installed as part of your landscape irrigation system. Glendale requires a permit for installing a vacuum breaker.
Click here to download an online version. (pdf) |
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Good Reasons to Take Out Your Grass —
Would you prefer lower water bills and less yard work to worry about? Do you have an old, tired lawn that seems to require more and more effort to maintain? Is the only time you walk on your lawn when you mow it? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider making the switch to water-saving Xeriscape. Click here to download an online version. (pdf)
En Espanol (pdf) |
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Desert Lawn Care
Click here to download an online version. (PDF)
En Espanol (pdf) |
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Water-Smart Landscape Guide
Use the new on-line Water-Smart Landscape Guide to complete your renovation plans, get ideas from the hundreds of Glendale-area garden pictures, or find that perfect plant for the right spot in your garden.
Click here to access the Water-Smart Landscape Guide. |
