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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worried about investing in greenery when you live in a hot, dry zone? Lush gardens can thrive in even dry and drought-prone areas ...

No, it's not "zero" scaping; it's "xeriscaping" - a method of planning, planting and maintaining your yard for the purpose of achieving a great looking, water saving, energy conserving, ...

Xeriscape pioneers (from left) Donald Godi and Ken Ball, landscape architects; Larry Keesen, an irrigation specialist; and Gene Eyerly, an arborist. The xeric garden is at a townhome complex in Denver ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the principles of xeriscaping: Start with a plan, improve the soil, choose the right plants, limit lawn, use mulch, irrigate efficiently and maintain the landscape.

When many people hear the term xeriscaping, they immediately think of a desert landscape or a landscape filled with rocks, stones and gravel either placed in a seemingly unkempt naturalistic look or ...

Punishing heat and drought. It’s a combination you wouldn’t wish on your worst gardening enemy. Keeping your landscape alive under these conditions presents a backbreaking and expensive challenge.

In a city with prolonged and frequent watering restrictions, a decision that many homeowners and house shoppers frequently confront is what kind of yards they want: plush, green carpets of grass or ...

If you've heard about the xeriscaping trend and how it can help your garden become more drought-tolerant, you might be ready to hop on the bandwagon. It's a landscaping concept based on the idea of ...

Last week I mentioned how unhappy I was about having to remove trees to save the septic system. There are more big changes to consider this week. I wrote last spring and summer about how much ...

Last January, as the Texas drought wore on, an Austin-area homeowners association called the Woods of Brushy Creek made a big change to its landscaping policies. No longer would homeowners be required ...