The best piece of advice I can give to anyone is to know what you want with your landscaping and back yard spaces. My husband really wanted to put in sprinklers and then drip lines around the beds that were around the house. Great. So, this was before I had any inkling I would want to blow the whole perimeter out and get super crazy putting in flower beds. So fast forward to today, I have a slew of new landscaped flower beds, no drip lines running to them from the irrigation system and the existing sprinkler heads now splash my gorgeous babies with cold water when it’s like 400 degrees outside. They don’t like that very much. So, not knowing what we wanted – or even having a vague idea – really messed us up good. The irrigation system that is on the drip lines around the house and the sprinkler heads work beautifully in tandem, now I just need to get the rest of the new areas updated and in the right groove. I’m sure that’s going to be a lot of fun. 🙂

In the meantime, I use a product by The Handy Camel called a Garden Thorn along with other surface irrigation drip line that I bought at Lowe’s. I like to use the Garden Thorns where I have large plants and shrubs so I get a deep root watering in only 5 minutes. Then I like to use the drip line standard tubing draped in and around areas where I have a lot of trees/junipers and bulbs. The bulbs are all over the place in some areas so the drip lines drench the whole area and get a larger surface area. Downside is they are not as direct and efficient as the Garden Thorn.