When you live in the desert it’s hard to keep anything looking
green, especially lawns. Ours looks
pretty bad. We’d love to have a bit of
lawn but have decided to take it out and xeriscape the whole area with rocks
and desert friendly plants. I’ll leave a
small space for seasonal flowers to add some color.
We haven’t started this project yet because we have to rent equipment to remove the dead lawn. We haven’t had time to do this job. Hopefully it won’t get to hot before we can tackle this, or it might be this fall before anything happens.
As it is we got two days off in a row so we could cut back bushes
and take out dead plants. We filled up
three trash cans with stuff, got sunburned in the process, and scratched all over
by twigs and wayward branches. We were a
sight at work the next few days.
The good news is once we can do this project we’ll save on
the water bill.
That's a good idea. It's so weird having lawns in the desert. Okay if there's enough water, but droughts and all...
ReplyDeleteLiz,
DeleteThanks. There's so much dirt and rock around here though that it makes it a tough decision. It does make sense in the desert.
Sunni