Intro to Growing Mexican Heather: Home Gardening Tips & Advice for Beginners

Series Summary

Landscaping your yard doesn't have to be a hassle, a task on an endless checklist of home improvement tasks. When you do a little at a time, gardening can be a pleasurable experience, helping you to reconnect with nature, breathe some fresh air, and maybe even lower your blood pressure. Home gardens can provide a peaceful area for reflection and relaxation, and they can be as simple or elaborate as you decide. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small garden is an easy project that you could tackle in just an afternoon.

In these free home and garden series, our expert shows you how to plant and take care of Mexican heather. He offers advice on what sorts of gardening tools and supplies you'll need, how to prepare the soil for planting, spacing tips, digging holes to the proper depth, and advice on mulching and maintaining your Mexican heather. The gardening information in these videos will help you to enjoy your heather plants and the therapeutic and rewarding feelings you can get from tending a garden.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Jose Zuniga and I'm representing expertvillage.com. We happen to be working with one of my favorite plants which is Mexican Heather also known as a false Heather in some parts of the United States. This one is purple and sometimes you can find it in a white. You know, I enjoy it because its great for hanging baskets, they do great in flower beds and also they uniform in exactly well forth order, even ground cover sometimes. Now, they love the heat, you know partial sun as well and guess what? They do keep deers away, they're deer resistant, you heard me right, deer resistant. Now in this series I'm going to go over with you like, where do we purchase it? How are we going to maintain it? What materials do we need? How do we get started by digging the hole? Are we going to mulch the plant? All those steps, I'm going to guide you one by one, we're going to have fun with this plant and this is how we plant Mexican Heather in your garden."