Well, actually water, water nowhere, as Denver Water issues new, tougher rules on water usage.
Not that our lawn is likely to look any worse after all this, as it’s been a disaster most of the year already.
The annoying thing is the elimination of all Sunday watering, the message being, “Oh, well, you miss that watering day.” Meaning it could be four or five days between watering.
Of course, temps are beginning to come down a bit, especially in the evenings. Hell, leaves should start turning soon.
Still … the impetus to turn more of my front yard into shrubbery continues to grow …
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Do you have a limit on how much of your front lawn can be landscaping, or how much must be lawn? I’m curious. Jackie seems to think there’s a minimum threshhold, but I can’t find out HOA agreements.
Okay, I haven’t looked, either.
I don’t believe that a certain square footage is specified. Instead, the HOA Architectural Committee gets to decide on plans in an ad hoc fashion.
We have approval already for (a) steps up from the sidewalk (not happening this year) and (b) further landscaping from the driveway over to where said steps will go.
Problem is, we want to do some retaining walling along there, which implies both (a) buying stone for said wall, (b) figuring out where it will go, (c) figuring out the impact on the sprinklers (and the steps?), and (d) actually doing the hard labor. I’d say it’s (b & c) giving us the most fits.
Of course, we also have to do the fence. First.
Have you considered any type of Xeriscaping?? There is a Xeriscaped area in Parker that is very interesting. I’ve taken a lot of ideas from there. The benefit is little to no watering required.
We use a lot of drought-tolerant plants in our yard already. Except, of course, for grass, which we would be more than happy to do completely away with.