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DOI:10.21273/HORTSCI.34.3.490F
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Author(s):Paul, Catherine A.; Davis, Greg L.; Horst, Garald L.; Rodie, Steven N.
Author Affiliation:Horticulture Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Title:Water use in herbaceous landscape plants
Section:Crop physiology
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Meeting Info.:96th Annual International Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science, Minneapolis, MN, June 27-31, 1999
Source:HortScience. Vol. 34, No. 3, June 1999, p. 490-491.
Publishing Information:Alexandria, VA: American Society for Horticultural Science
# of Pages:2
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Water use; Landscaping; Water conservation; Schizachyrium scoparium; Festuca; Herbaceous perennials
Abstract/Contents:"Water conservation in a landscape is an important issue because periodic water shoratges are common in many regions of the world. This increases the importance of specifying landscape plants that require less water and matching importance of specifying landscape plants that require less water and matching the plant to site microclimates. Our objectives were to establish water-use rates for three herbaceous landscape plants and to determine the level of water reduction these plants can tolerate while maintaing both visual and landscape quality. Water use rates were determined for Schizachyrium scoparium (Little bluestem), Hosta spp. (Hosta) and Festuca cinerea 'Dwarf' (Dwarf blue fescue) in studies using pot lysimeters at the Univ. of Nebraska Horticulture Research Greenhouse facility. Each lysimeter was watered to saturation, allowed to drain to field capacity, and weighed. The lysimeters were weighed again 24 h later, and the process was repeated to determine daily evapotranspiration. Results indicated that hosta used less water than dwarf blue fescue and little bluestem. In a subsequent study to compare the relative effects of withholding irrigation among these species, seven groups of five replicates of each species were grown in 1 peat : 0.33 vermiculite : 0.66 soil : 1 sand (by volume) in 7.6-L containers. Each container was watered to saturation, allowed to drain for 24 h to reach field capacity, and allowed to dry down in 10-day increments. Results of the dry-down study indicated that little bluestem maintained the best visual quality for the longest duration of drought, followed by dwarf blue fescue and hosta in decreasing order of visual quality".
Language:English
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Paul, C. A., G. L. Davis, G. L. Horst, and S. N. Rodie. 1999. Water use in herbaceous landscape plants. HortScience. 34(3):p. 490-491.
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DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI.34.3.490F
Web URL(s):
https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/34/3/article-p490F.xml?rskey=85RmE2
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    Notes: Item is within a single large file; Abstract only
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