Creating Drought Resilient Landscapes Free Zoom Workshop10/12/22

Is your landscape equipped to thrive in our dry climate? Increase the resiliency and health of your landscape, while saving time and water. Presented by Jonathan Manning, certified Arborist and local Nurseryman,
sponsored by the city of Glendale Water Services Dept. To attend, you must register for this event and include an email address, so you can obtain the Zoom login info. We have limited participant capacity via Zoom,so please cancel your registration if you are no longer able to attend to allow others the opportunity to sign up. Wednesday October 12, 2022.
Questions? Call 623.930.3535 or email oabu@glendaleaz.com.

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Thank you for posting SCJ. More of our green grass in SC needs to be changed out. And RCSC should look around at our centers and consider doing some removal.

 

The next ten years in AZ will be fascinating to watch. So many outside issues compounding life inside the walls of our little slice of paradise. Last night at the Sun Bowl, i heard from several people about "crime." As i told them, it's not an easy answer, it complicated, and starts in my humble opinion with great security around our rec centers. The people i talked to were stunned we don't have security cameras at any of our facilities or golf courses. No, it won't solve it all, but theft is a crime of opportunity and sadly with no cameras the opportunity is plentiful.

Sun City Jack's post is the other challenge that is going to overwhelm us in the future. The lush green, verdant landscaping Webb used to "market" Sun City will be problematic going forward. Water conservation will become a far bigger issue as we try and deal with the water shortages we will all be facing. There are clearly plants better suited to this area than others. It will be curious to see how the RCSC responds. They'll have no choice with the golf courses, turf reduction on all of the rough and main streets abutting the courses is a given; albeit a really expensive fix. The good news is, the RCSC has the resources, the bad news is, the private golf courses don't.

We've long argued for a long term strategic plan rather than the catch-as-catch-can approach embraced by the RCSC over the last 15 years. Hopefully they include green space reductions as well.

 

Agreed! The grass removals in most places makes great sense. I worry about the knee jerk reactions for removal of established trees. Neighborhoods near me have cut down all their mature trees without planting anything in their places and look like wastelands. Tree lined streets that used to provide respite during summer walks are gone. Experts attest once the trees reach maturity, they don't need much water and the shade is much appreciated and houses wildlife. The super tall spindly palms are a different story--no shade and dangerous to trim so younger ones or a different variety should be planted. The problem is there is little guidance from trained arborists for residents (SCHOA could be holding regular workshops esp. for newbies) and long range landscape plans by RCSC. We have no committee (like some communities have community aesthetics/beautification committees), that could work with Garden Club, Prides, condo associations, SCHOA, RCSC, etc. It's everyone for themselves and that's not a community.