The practice of implementing drier plants into a yard has become increasingly popular in the dry area of San Antonio.

You’ll save water, reduce lawn maintenance and have a yard you’ll love to spend time in. Follow the principles of xeriscaping to plan your new garden, select the right plants, and use your ...

An Orem ordinance that mandates that 70% of front yards is grass is receiving a proposed amendment change to 50%. ... flowering perennials and grasses that are acceptable for front yard xeriscaping.

By the 20th century, Lurie said much of the modern conception of a suburban house with a grass front yard came from homesellers looking to create a quaint image for potential buyers.

Mark Tylutki knows all of his desert garden babies by name. There is Trichocereus Flying Saucer, with a glorious pink bloom. There's tall and twisty Pedilanthus macrocarpus and Harrisia jusbertii, ...

A front yard garden bed isn't complete until it's been edged, and rocks are a brilliant way to do that. This design has flat rocks stacked over each other, but medium-sized river rock or a variety ...

See also: “Sheep, goats, electric mowers: Tending a sustainable lawn” Xeriscaping finds its root word in the Mediterranean, the Greek xeros, meaning “dry,” but xeriscape gardening can take ...

We get it, Colorado. You hate xeriscape. You’re probably visualizing it right now. ... It doesn’t have to be your entire lot and it doesn’t need to be in both the front and back yard.

Xeriscaping doesn’t mean you don’t ever have to water. It means landscaping and gardening in a way that uses less water, while still having an attractive yard. The Acks called Dale Donahue of ...

A Xeriscaped front yard for water conservation features a dry creek bed. Ornamental grasses and turf lawn alternatives will save water in a xeriscape landscape. Tropical milkweed is a beautiful ...

The green, green grass of home is now zeroscape. Or is it xeriscape? Or maybe it’s just plain old drought-tolerant landscaping. Any way you describe it, those fabulous green front lawns that ...