The Manzanita Miracle, or, why you should love native plants if you live in a dry climate
...tegorized a low water use plants. The location was in Los Angeles, and the soil type was a sandy clay. Using this information, we were able to calculate how much water the soil held, and how much the plant used daily, leading us to figure out how long this particular plant can go between waterings–safely. Not pushing it to the edge of death, you understand, just calculating its normal water needs. This figure is called the “irrigation interval” an...
