DROUGHT TOLERANT MEDIAN LANDSCAPING

Palm Desert, California retained a landscape architect to design a pilot median about 1/2-mile long on a Palm Desert major thoroughfare, modeled after the Phoenix/Scottsdale program, which aims to reduce maintenance costs while providing aesthetically pleasing, desert-type plantings along medians. The resulting design and landscape installation cost $37,000. The landscapes installed were all native plants and the irrigation system was designed with all low-volume drip emitters and no spray heads. This article discusses the pilot project results and further projects undertaken.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  P.O. Box 688
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Authors:
  • Folkers, R J
• Publication Date: 1989-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 72
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 120
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Chemical reduction; Costs; Deserts; Landscape design; Maintenance management; Medians; Planting
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Median plantings; Reduction
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00482260
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1989 12:00AM