City of Oklahoma City Videos, 15 Dec 2015

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From YouTube: OSUHLA Bluff Creek Construction Promo

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New Bluff Creek Park water conservation garden opening in the spring 2016

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Three years ago, we were approached by the city of Oklahoma City and they wanted to see how they could participate with OSU Extension and to focus really on water conservation. The.

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Utilities approached the parks department asking us if we had park spaces available where they could set up these demonstration. Water conservation gardens- and we said, we've got a perfect one at bluff. Creek Bluff, Creek Park is really a jewel on the north side of Oklahoma City. It's so popular with our runners and walkers. A lot of people have discovered it. You.

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Have 1.3 million people in this area? They all use drinking water, they all take showers, they all flush toilets, and so we have to do things that are going to save water. One easy way to do that is to cut outdoor water use a.

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Lot of times, low water use, gardens just makes sense for the parks department. That's especially true, you can create a garden that is incredibly beautiful, but also does not require a lot of maintenance or water to do it. In the.

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Spring and in the fall typical years in Oklahoma, we get enough rainfall to keep turf grasses and ornamental plants alive. It.

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Was a great opportunity to not only provide new enhanced landscaping at the park, but to teach people how they can use water saving plants, how they can use planting techniques that will help them at home and help the city save water overall. Here.

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At the bluff, creek water conservation garden, we're planning a lot of plants that are native to oklahoma. This.

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Water conservation garden is an excellent resource for homeowners. A lot of plant materials out here that may not normally see all of.

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The plants will be labeled with their names so that people can identify what they are and find them in nurseries that they're interested in having these at their own home. This first year will really have to take care of the plants water them pretty regularly, but after the first year these plants will be able to survive under natural rainfall. Here in Oklahoma, a lot of these plant.

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Materials really do well with the fall planting. They really get established through the fall through the spring, get some roots going before the next summer and.

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When you're planting a plant, it's important to do a little bit of root preparation. This allows the roots to find their way into the soil, rather than being all bound up together after you put a plant in the ground, put a good layer of two to three inches of mulch on top and around the plant. That will help ensure that moisture stays in the soil and also when you're planting in fall like we are here, it'll help plants stay warm.

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This site, to begin with, there's really just for muta grass. We had to come in and take out the Bermuda grass and then really build up these planting beds. So we had large dump trucks bringing in soil.

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In total, there's over 3,000 plants that are going into this garden, so we're really excited to see what this space looks like come spring. It's going to be really beautiful, a thriving landscape, we'd.

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Encourage anyone who has an interest in water conservation gardens to come out and visit Bluff Creek Park, see what it's all about, see what you can do at home and not only making your own landscape more beautiful, but in learning to save water. At the same time, we.

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Also have a water conservation guide, which goes step-by-step of how to save water around your home, really simple steps so visit us at think: watered ok, state edu or squeeze every drop calm and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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