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[Deb aka Resume Lady]

My husband and I frequently ponder at why the city doesn't do water-wise landscaping. Using native plants instead of grass would minimize the amount of water used and would substantially reduce gardening maintenance costs since there would be no need for mowing.

[momof1]

My husband and I frequently ponder at why the city doesn't do water-wise landscaping. Using native plants instead of grass would minimize the amount of water used and would substantially reduce gardening maintenance costs since there would be no need for mowing.

maybe because grass is more appealing to run around on, play frisbee on, lay down on, than a rock garden with prickly drought resistant plants.

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

maybe because grass is more appealing to run around on, play frisbee on, lay down on, than a rock garden with prickly drought resistant plants.

I'm not talking about parks and there are numerous drought-resistant plants that aren't in the cacti family.

[ducky]

My husband and I frequently ponder at why the city doesn't do water-wise landscaping. Using native plants instead of grass would minimize the amount of water used and would substantially reduce gardening maintenance costs since there would be no need for mowing.

I think you have a valid point. While I am looking in my yard as to which children(plants) I can keep, I see lawns that nobody ever uses that are city property. For example, the lawn in front of the senior center.

I will say I think they are trying to change. The median on Oak Avenue Parkway comes to mind. They just replaced that with what looks like more water-efficient landscaping. Thing is, it takes some money to make the change, which I assume is in short supply right now if they are selling city properties that they could have sold back when things would have fetched a much better price.

[Darth Lefty]

Grass is drought resistant. You just have to let it be brown for nine months out of the year, and not mow it.

[ducky]

Grass is drought resistant. You just have to let it be brown for nine months out of the year, and not mow it.

Actually, you mow it once, then let it turn brown, and it becomes maintenance free at that point. At least that seems to be the gardening method for some rentals and bank-owned properties in town.

[folsom500]

Actually, you mow it once, then let it turn brown, and it becomes maintenance free at that point. At least that seems to be the gardening method for some rentals and bank-owned properties in town.

After you let it turn brown spray paint or Roll paint it green. I have seen some vacant houses that are going through foreclosure and short sale with painted dead lawns.

[Sonny]

Here is the million dollar question, After rates have been jacked up so high that we are only showering once a month, what is the city going to do with all that "surplus" water we are conserving?

In my "Environmental Studies" class in college the professor told us all to waste water. His reason... that developers want us to conserve so they can build more. Probably not a P.C. opinion, but that what we were told.

On a side thought... I've always wondered, if I turned on my kitchen faucet and ran 1 million gallons down the drain, where does it all go? Back into the river after some treatment?

[Sonny]

Posted 09 February 2012 - 05:33 PM

'Robert Giacometti', on 08 Feb 2012 - 4:30 PM, said:

Here is the million dollar question, After rates have been jacked up so high that we are only showering once a month, what is the city going to do with all that "surplus" water we are conserving?

 

Do we have our answer where our "surplus" water is going now?

 

In my "Environmental Studies" class in college the professor told us all to waste water. His reason... that developers want us to conserve so they can build more. Probably not a P.C. opinion, but that what we were told.

On  a side thought... I've always wondered, if I turned on my kitchen faucet and ran 1 million gallons down the drain, where does it all go? Back into the river after some treatment?

 

         

 

(developers cheering on your water conservation)

[camay2327]

Is Robert back?