Something should have done a long time ago; lawns don’t belong in the middle of a dessert.
“Something should have done a long time ago; lawns don’t belong in the middle of a dessert.”
Decades ago during water restrictions one of my neighbors expensively and artfully zeroscaped with rock paths and pretty clumps of drought tolerant plants. He even had a couple of shade trees with a drip system. The homeowners association went nuts. They sued him. I’m telling you, what he did looked GREAT. But it was not a lawn. (I moved away, so I don’t know how it eventually worked out. But my suspicion is he either moved or put in a lawn.)
Yup. Overpopulating a coastal desert was a bad idea: bad for California, bad for Californians, bad for the whole country because a lot of “green” ideas that are actually sensible in the context of an overpopulated desert have been foisted on the whole country (and in some instances the whole world) as ways to “save the planet”, when they are pointless and costly in areas with abundant water supplies.
I wouldn’t eat a lawn for dessert myself. A cow or a horse might.
You ever notice that the same people that pay illegal Guatemalans to maintain their lawn and gardens are the same ones that pay membership fees so they can go to the gym to work out every day?
It’s called xeriscaping!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping
Hopefully it’s not just California where this takes hold. The idea that a green lawn is a requirement should be dead by now. Even in Florida I spend way too much watering this !@#$& St. Augustine grass. Would love to let the whole thing go native.
Golf courses don't either.
>>Something should have done a long time ago; lawns don’t belong in the middle of a dessert.
It’s even a bad idea in nearly-tropical Florida because most HOAs won’t allow natural grass. You have to use water-wasting grass because it looks uniform.
Manicured lawns should never be mandatory.
EXACTLY....nor in Most neighborhoods....and, NO I’m NOT an environmentalist....I just HATE lawns...too much work and resources for something you cannot eat.
AMEN!