I keep seeing that we need to go to low water-use or drought-tolerant plants but they look so brown and dry. Aren’t there any pretty low water plants?
There are tons of beautiful low water-use plants and several places to see them. The Water Conservation Garden (www.TheGarden.org) at Cuyamaca College in El Cajon has extensive, beautiful low water demonstration gardens that are full of color. While it can be a challenge to envision how a plant will look when you are seeing it in the nursery can, at The Garden, you can see how those plants actually look in the ground, in a garden setting. Another excellent example is the San Diego County Water Authority Building (www.sdcwa.org) in Kearny Mesa. This beautiful garden was designed by Pamela Homfelt and includes both succulent and non-succulent plants. Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas (www.qbgardens.org) also has displays of low water plants, California natives along with plants from Australia, South Africa, and other Mediterranean climate regions of the world.
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