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We took out our front lawn and replaced it with a drought tolerant garden with redwood chips, succulents and other drought tolerant plants. It looks much better
by not2b 3y ago
We took out our front lawn and replaced it with a drought tolerant garden with redwood chips, succulents and other drought tolerant plants. It looks much better than it used to look, and we got part of it paid for by money from the Santa Clara County water district (though we paid most of the cost).
- bombcar 3y agoThey need to be maintained also; five or ten years in with "minimal maintenance" and the redwoods have weeds growing through them. Maintenance is hard.
- not2b 3y agoIt's considerably less work than maintaining the grass lawn that it replaced, which needed to be mowed and weeded. Also, you use quotes here, but I'm not sure who you're quoting, it wasn't me.