DIG ONLINE: Top Desert Trees For Your Home Landscape
Schedule
Fri Jan 19 2024 at 01:15 am to 03:45 am
Location
online | Online
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Come learn about trees in the Sonoran Desert (where we live!), what we need to consider in choosing new trees and best trees for the low desert.THIS IS AN ONLINE CLASS
The summers of 2020 and 2023 were the hottest on record: too many days over 100-degrees consecutively meant we lost too many trees in our communities and home landscapes. Selecting and planting new trees is essential to providing shade; reducing our energy costs; cleaning the air and reducing greenhouse gases; providing better walkability along our streets and neighborhoods; making our neighborhoods more beautiful; and reducing the ‘island heat effect’ in our city. Finally, trees help create ideal habitats for our many birds, pollinators and other wildlife.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of trees in our landscapes
- List considerations needed for tree selection and placement
- Select trees appropriate for the space and our low desert climate
- Choose trees according to need (shade, food, wildlife habitat)
- Install trees correctly and at the right time of year
- Water: learn more about the correct watering of new and established trees.
Speaker: Katie Coates, Certified Desert Landscape Designer & Master Gardener
Katie has lived in Arizona, California and Colorado and loves the West, Southwest, and Rocky Mountain regions. After moving to Arizona 17 years ago, Katie blended her skills in Rocky Mountain gardening with desert landscaping. She became a Certified Desert Landscape Designer through Desert Botanical Gardens in 2010—recertified in 2019--and a University of Arizona Maricopa County Certified Master Gardener in 2014. She also enjoys writing about seasonal blooming plants periodically in Phoenix Home & Garden magazine.
When designing outdoor environments, Katie plans with the client’s lifestyle and interests in mind. A variety of space vignettes, plants, textures, hardscape and colors collide to create beauty, sound and movement for visual and physical pleasure.
Katie offers desert landscaping design services through her firm, PaloOco Design (paloocodesign.com), focused on choosing the right plants for our unique climate as well as integrating more lush, blooming plants that require less water and invite wildlife into the garden.
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