Landscape your yard with water-wise, native plants

Looking for a lovely and eco-friendly way to save water and add value to your home? Why not replace water-using grass with water-saving native and adapted plants? You have probably already heard about changing your showerhead and toilet to low-flow models, but how about your landscaping? What's wrong with a conventional lawn? It requires frequent watering. It must be mowed every week or two. Generally needs chemical fertilizers several times per year and it's a mono-culture that does not encourage diversity in wildlife or beneficial insects such as bees and other pollinators.

By choosing native plants that thrive in your climate, you can reduce watering and overall maintenance as well. Plants that originated in your area also provide habitats for local native animals and beneficial insects such as butterflies, plus they create a more-natural looking landscape that will be the envy of all of your neighbors. Natives also require very little water, you never have to mow them and they don’t need fertilizer to look fantastic.

Ask at your local nursery for native plants. If they don’t carry any, you might want to encourage them to do so.

Supply List:

1. Autumn Sage

2. Weeping Love Grass

3. Spineless Prickly Pear

4. Desert Willow

5. Red Yucca

6. Texas Sundrops

7. Compost

8. Mulch

9. Drip irrigation (optional)