Posted on 07/18/2014 3:26:01 PM PDT by grundle
“Dig it up. Cover it with gravel and plant cactus”
Canberra where I spent the Holidays last year, has basically the same weather as North Texas so when they started water restrictions this year in Fort Worth I wrote a letter to my HOA suggesting the same landscape as in Canberra....Gravel and drought resistant plants. They wouldn’t even discuss it. Gravel and cactus people said was a desert landscape and North Texas is rolling meadows.
Astroturf.
Yes there was Astroturf also but the really pretty yards had gravel and lots of rose bushes. I loved walking around the neighborhood because there were so many pretty landscapes.
That’s California for you. Screwed if you do, fscrewed if you don’t.
Hopefully the stupid council doesn’t make people landscape to fit the local “environment” - stupid, one says water and we’ll fine you, the other says to water your lawn or we’ll fine you. It’s about time that ..... *sigh* - never happen.
Use their toilet and grey water. Just collect it in a bucket and swill the lawn every night.
My guess is the natural brown of the lawn would become acceptable almost immediately.
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