Landscaping Tips

Soil and Site Conditions

• Keep your soil healthy
• Aerate your soil
• Use mulch to save water and improve soil health
• Minimize steep slopes
• Use soil amendments where appropriate

Plants

• Use regionally appropriate, low water-using and native plants
• Recognize site conditions and plant appropriately
• Group similar plants together for irrigation

Maintenance

• Irrigate only when needed
• Keep up with the weeding
• If you have a lawn, raise your lawn mower cutting height
• Minimize or eliminate fertilizer

Award-Winning Landscapes

Below are photos of a few past contest winners, as well as several beautiful drought-tolerant yards we’ve come across.