Desert Oasis Garden Plans create serene outdoor spaces by blending warm tones and earthy textures into relaxing outdoor rooms. By employing conservation practices and architectural minimalism, these plans highlight nature’s resilience as a source of beauty.
Water from an oasis and its plants helps cool its surroundings by evaporating and transpiring, effectively lowering ground and air temperatures. This cooling effect is due to differences between the albedo of vegetation vs bare earth surfaces.
Warm Tones
Warm tones evoke the natural environment and provide a cohesive aesthetic in desert landscapes, calling up imagery of sandy beige, terra-cotta, and ochre to match native plants in your surrounding environment. Textures such as weathered wood, rusted metals, and woven rugs only amplify this look and blur the boundaries between designed and natural elements.
Corten steel is an attractive material choice for pathways, patios and garden walls in hot desert climates that blend in perfectly. Additionally, corrugated metal roof pergolas can offer shade while fitting seamlessly into their surroundings.
Think Green Design can add wildlife-attracting bird baths and small water features into your hardscape design to encourage birds and aquatic wildlife in Arizona’s desert environment. Our custom hardscapes make it simple for you to entertain or simply unwind in your Arizona oasis!
Earthy Textures
Desert-inspired colors such as sandy beige, terracotta and dusty green evoke feelings of serenity when used in design schemes that reflect its barren landscape. Earthy tones such as these pair well with natural materials and textures to form an aesthetic design scheme; woven baskets make an excellent storage solution while adding rustic charm.
Oases are provided with water from underground water sources known as aquifers, often providing freshwater that finds its way up through natural springs or wells to the surface. Although some oasis settlements may be close to rivers that bring fresh water up from underground sources, others are found in more remote areas where rock layers create channels through which the moisture seeps into their settlement.
Most studies on the oasis effect have focused on its existence during summer, due to extreme summer climate conditions in an oasis settlement. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether or not such an effect existed during winter when evaporation cooling is less significant, by studying the effects of various vegetation types on energy balance in winter desert oasis settlements.
Native Plants
Selecting drought-tolerant and native plants in your landscape is an effective way to lower water usage and save water costs. Cacti and agaves have evolved to store water more efficiently, thus decreasing transpiration losses. You’ll find plenty of these drought-tolerant options at local botanical gardens or nurseries.
One way to increase the value of your backyard desert oasis is to incorporate hardscaping elements, such as pathways, patios and walls, into its design. Not only are these features durable but they add both beauty and functionality.
Oasis are distinguished by their source of water, whether natural springs or manmade wells. To protect their wells and crops from being polluted by windblown sandstorms, communities have planted strong trees such as palms which block windblown sand from blocking access to their precious resource – the source of life itself!
Trees
Desert-inspired colors such as sandy beige, terracotta, and ochre add earthy beauty. Weatherproof materials like wrought iron and weatherproof wicker make outdoor furniture durable while adding style.
Oases are fertile tracts of land where an ample supply of water allows for food production and human habitation. Most oases draw their water from underground sources known as aquifers; sometimes natural springs bring up this water directly while wells tap the aquifer directly.
While most studies of oasis effects focus on the summer season, this research seeks to investigate their development and dynamics during wintertime. Results revealed that nighttime warming was most evident among winter oases while cooling effects were much less prominent.
Selecting drought-tolerant native plants and employing xeriscaping techniques offers an effective combination of aesthetics and sustainability, producing stunning landscapes that thrive even in desert conditions while adding value to your property.