A xeriscape is a low water-use and low maintenance landscape containing drought-adapted plants. A xeriscape garden need not be bare-looking. Properly designed, these gardens can offer shade, colorful flowers, and a variety of textures and forms offered by desert plants. Xeriscape gardens in Arizona frequently use plants native to the Sonoran Desert and can be homes to native wildlife. Rainwater harvesting is often employed in xeriscape gardens. The landscape is contoured to collect rainwater and avoid runoff from the site, or rainwater is actively collected in tanks, to be used in times of drought.
In the interest of promoting a choice of plants which thrive on limited water consumption, many municipalities in central Arizona maintain xeriscape gardens to demonstrate landscape plants for low water-use landscaping. Visit your nearby xeriscape garden for ideas! Also take a look at other gardens in neighboring cities, they are all different and full of inspiration.
See these Cooperative Extension publications for more information on xeriscape gardens and low water-use landscaping techniques.
This is not a definitive listing, but an ever-growing and changing map. If you do not see your public xeriscape garden listed on this map, please contact us with the following information:
Xeriscape Garden Name:
Xeriscape Garden Address:
Garden Contact and Administrator:
And 2-5 pictures of the garden for verification.
Please email this information to mcce-mastergardenerprogram@email.arizona.edu.