This is Rodney with Zebra scapes

landscaping podcast. We are here today to talk about plants,

plants and trees is very important. You can go to the

nursery and check out your plants and be like these are so

beautiful, but they're not making it on my property. They

don't thrive like that. They're struggling to shrivel. The

leaves shrivel. All these things are questions that you wonder

why they're not growing on your property. It's not the green

thumb, it's the it's the temperature. When you get them

from the nursery, they're in an enclosure, or they're in a

shaded area, or they're in an area where they don't get as hot

the location of the nursery they got it down. They know what

plants thrive best, and they know once it's out that door,

they're off the hook. So let's do our homework before you get

into it, let's check out the zone of where you are to know

what plant thrive in this area. So first of all, go with the

plants that are best for the Prescott area. We strongly

recommend Arizona ash. I mean, it's here. It's native. It

belongs here. There's also many other ones, a desert willow.

These are plants that will grow. They'll grow with very little

water, and they'll grow in the heat and in the temperature.

Western red buds, a beautiful plant that you can plant close

to the house, that thrive. Western is great. It's

excellent. We love it. Some people say, Well, I want an

Eastern. I like the different color. Well, it's not going to

thrive like the Western. There's a reason for it. So think about

what you're getting, and think about what you want to thrive

and the difference you want to go with it. Crab apples are

great for the Prescott area in this zone, beautiful ornamental

plant that grows and gets colors and flowers for the springtime

and get some fall color leaves also, those are plants you want

to go off of. The plant you want to stay away from is Leland

cypresses you want to I mean, Autumn blades are beautiful.

They struggle. They the leaves will shrivel up a little bit.

But yes, they work, and yes, they're beautiful. Are they

going to thrive? It depends on where they at, on your location

of your property, and how much water you have going to them.

Planting plants is also important that you get the right

amount of water. You don't want to plant a plant where it's in

granite rock and you got a hard dig. It'll grow, but it's not

going to thrive. It's not going to bring forth the height and

the shade that you're looking for to do when you're looking

for trees. So we want to just to consider the plants that are

growing, plant the plants, look up, the plants that are native,

the plants that are in the area. Apache, plume, beautiful plant

that grows in the area. It's native. Some people don't like

it, but keep it trimmed. It looks good. I think it looks

amazing. Very, very low water, if any after the first two

years, is planted. The Texan Rangers are a great sage to go

with, or a Texan sage is a native plant. Keep it clean,

pruned. They look great. Manzanita is obviously a great

plant. They're very difficult to get off the ground and get

started. They're very touchy on the water, but Manton needs a

nice plant that will grow in this area. It's a red bark. It

looks beautiful. These are plants that really thrive in the

area once they're established. And all plants you plant, no

matter what it is, you still need to water for the first

several months to get it off the ground. And then you can go,

instead of weekly, you can go every other week, after a few

years of growth on the trees to water them, to save your water.

Be very conservative on your water. So those are the plants

that I recommend here at zebrascapes. We want to continue

to stay in our zone, to keep our plants that we have local and

let them grow to the full expectations where they are.

When we also talk about plants, it's critical that you watch,

look at what you have, about the shade and how much shade it

needs. If it does not recommend full sun, it will not thrive.

Yes, it'll make it one to two years, but it's not going to

grow. If you look at your plant in the first year, it ain't

thriving, look it up. Is that plant in the right area of the

house? If it's not, I strongly recommend you transplanting it,

because it's never going to grow strong. Three to five years,

it'll end up dying. The leaves will shrivel up, and you're

going to have issues with plants. A lot of times you go to

houses go see a Japanese maple, and it's shriveled up, it's not

growing, and it's got six hours of sun, or four hours sun, it's

just too much, especially if it's the the evening sun, when

that Sun's hot and it's hitting on it. And another thing to

think about is very important, when you plant plants up against

your house, that sun, if you have a stucco house, it bounces

off that wall, concrete wall, stucco, and that is warm. Just

go out to your house and look at about eight, nine o'clock, when

the sun's down, that wall is still hot and that plant cannot

cool down. It's important. Keep it away from the house so it's

not bouncing that heat off if you want it to thrive. So those

are things that we want to constantly think about and look

at. When you plant plants. Is the surrounding area? What's

around it? What's above it? Do you have a lot of shade? Are you

are also when the snow load the roof, snow slides off the roof.

How much damaging will the snow make on your plant? It makes

damage without a question. Tree snap, limbs, bushes will just

crumble when that weight of that snow lands on it, because you're

not going to go out and clean it right away, and then it just

flattens out. So it's important to look at the surroundings of

that around your place when it comes to plants and the health

of it all. So shade, the where it's located, the stucco wall, a

concrete wall that is hot when it's a close by that and also

the utmost important is the zones. Check your zones on what

you have around so plants, let's stay in Arizona. Let's stay in

our zone. Let's plant the plants that are for this area. That is

what thrives. When you start bringing plants in, leaving

cypresses and other plants that aren't just made for this area,

they will struggle. They'll work without a question. They'll grow

and they'll thrive. But nothing like the plants that are native

this area. You can use a lot less water if you stick to the

plants that are here in this zone. Thanks for listening.