[PCA] NEWS: Plenty of lessons to be learned on Dallas tour of water-wise gardens

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Jun 4 10:15:02 CDT 2009


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/greenliving/stories/DN-nhg_waterwise_0604gd.ART.State.Edition1.22ea54a.html

Plenty of lessons to be learned on Dallas tour of water-wise gardens
01:32 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
By MARIANA GREENE Garden Editor magreene at dallasnews.com

Unless you are a practitioner yourself, you may think if you've seen one 
water-wise garden, you've seen them all. Saturday's Dallas-area landscape 
tour, staged to promote water conservation, will quickly show you how 
wrong you are, even if you visit only two stops.

Yes, you'll see agaves and a few palms. You'll stop at houses without a 
thick, green St. Augustine lawn. But you'll also marvel at the lushness of 
gardens filled with native and adapted plants that flower just as 
earnestly as the annuals and perennials traditionally used in New England.

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