• Tedrow
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      499 months ago

      This does not require mass weed killer, pesticides, and water though?

    • @[email protected]
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      409 months ago

      Honestly, that may be better. At least it doesn’t use water and it would be fine in a very dry environment out western US.

      Native plants would still be even better though.

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          39 months ago

          When I say that, I mean having a full garden of native plants rather than the couple of bushes that are there.

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      129 months ago

      I live in the desert (Utah). My yard will look like this soon. It’s too expensive to water our lawn so we’re going with a xeriscape.

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      109 months ago

      Looks like an example of xeriscaping, or gardening with a minimal need for irrigation. Not the best I’ve seen, but at least it’s water-conserving.

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        39 months ago

        Is the native landscape a rock garden? If you live in the Mojave: Go nuts, but that black rock is going to bake your house and drive up your carbon dioxide usage. Plants breathe just like animals do and that increases humidity locally, and in dry climates that can be a significant cooling effect. Essentially cheap evaporative cooling.

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      29 months ago

      I feel like this can still be a native lawn depending on which biome it’s in. Seems more desert like than a prairie/forest type “native lawn” you might traditionally think of.

      But yeah native can look different depending on location so I might be ok with this