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Ultimately, as water becomes an ever-more-precious resource, lawn watering
will have to go, or will have to be significantly reduced in areas which are too dry to support them naturally. In many parts of the west, it would be possible to plant buffalo grass or some other native grass which could survive on 10-15 inches of rain a year. It won't look like or feel like the bluegrass lawns we are used to, but if it starts to cost $600-1000 summer just to maintain a lawn, lots of families and individuals are going to consider it...... Some upscale developments in my area are going for the natural open ponderosa forest/bunch grassland mix common here. I think it's very pretty - if they want to have a minimal lawn and garden immediately adjacent to the house (which is also a good plan in case of forest fires), it's much more practical and much lower maintenance than large swaths of lawn. "sylvan butler" wrote in message rnal... On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:14:34 GMT, Travis M. wrote: If someone is watering their lawn/grass in the summer just to keep it green they are wasting water. Let the grass/lawn go dormant in the summer and when it starts raining again the grass will green up. Oh, now you assume everyone lives in your climate. That is a great "north of seattle, WA" plan. Not for me. Around here if you do that you will end up with cheatgrass (classed as a noxious weed and you will be fined if you have it), bitterbrush, ragweed and various other things, not lawn. You see, with only 12" annual precipitation, which occurs almost entirely november to march when grass is dormant because of cold, a lawn will not just "go dormant" in the dry season, it and the roots will entirely die and blow away before it rains. sdb -- Wanted: Omnibook 800 & accessories, cheap, working or not sdbuse1 on mailhost bigfoot.com |
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