Rethink landscaping with drought-tolerant plants and water-saving techniques

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We have only one aquifer — use it wisely.

Effective landscaping can do more than beautify home exteriors. It creates outdoor living spaces and interacts with sun and other elements to provide shade and windbreak where it’s needed most. The plants themselves — groundcover, flowers, shrubs, trees — also provide a vital eco-link, such as food for pollinators and habitat for critters.

And yet living things, as we know, require water, some much more than others — including lawns, which are at

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