Xeriscaping

Here's how you can save water without sacrificing greenery.

A garden can be developed and maintained without necessarily having to spend a lot of money or time and water. You can check out these low-water landscaping ideas for your garden.

Create a beautiful landscape and conserve water with xeriscaping, a landscaping method that reduces irrigation needs and maximizes the use of natural precipitation.

Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado

Our expert Janet Sluis shares the garden plan for the Sunset Smart Cottage at Cornerstone Sonoma. Featuring plants that add movement and year-round appeal with little fuss like Platinum Beauty lomandra, it's a winner.

Cottage gardens are intentionally casual. Go big on color, but light on labor with this classic, informal garden style.

Dry gardening for arid climates. No special watering required. Usually involves native plants, as here. Seen in front of the biology buildings on the University of Texas campus, Austin. Read more here: www.utexas.edu/know/2011/08/12/xeriscaping_ut/ Lifted by a writer for use on Pinterest, a website where viewing is restricted to members. Click thru 'credit' works, but it would be nice to have name credit when Creative Commons pictures are reused!

I have the Long Beach Marathon to thank for finding this garden. No, I didn’t run the marathon, more like actively avoided it. The marathon barricades cut off much of my end of Long Beach on …

A striking desert home was designed for a couple of empty nesters, centered around their budding hobbies by Tate Studio Architects, in Scottsdale, Arizona.