Our Yard
click photo to enlarge	As part of our journey going green, so far we have installed solar power and drive a hybrid, we decided it was time to take out the grass in the front yard. For gosh sake we live in an arid climate and water is becoming precious and scarce. Anyway, we decided it was time to cut down on water waste. Of course the picture at the left with green grass was before we started.
click photo to enlarge	The first step was to kill of all the grass using round up. It takes about 3 to 4 weeks for it to all die off. In the next picture below the grass has all been removed and they painted on a general layout of the design. Part of the waterwise landscape is the irrigation system. There are no above ground sprinklers. All watering is done below ground for the plant roots. There is no spray to evaporate. Then it is controlled by a system that includes a weather monitoring system. Currently, in the middle of summer it is only watering about once every 8 days.
click photo to enlarge	The pictures at the bottom are right after it was completed. A month later many of the plants have flowers and have already grown. I suspect by next year the yard will be filed in nicely and my water bill will have gone down. This may not be for everybody but we like it. No more grass to water and mow and no more wasting water. We have significantly reduced our carbon footprint.
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