(COLORADO) — The Pikes Peak Region has a semi-arid climate, with only 13 inches of rain and three inches of snow on average each year, making it necessary to irrigate flowers, trees, and lawns to keep ...

Trends come and go, but the semi-arid climate of the Front Range and Eastern Plains is here to stay. That’s why xeriscaping— ...

A Xeriscaped front yard for water conservation features a dry creek bed. Ornamental grasses and turf lawn alternatives will save water in a xeriscape landscape. Tropical milkweed is a beautiful ...

Landscape irrigation accounts for roughly one-third of all residential water use in the United States, and according to the EPA, about half of that water is wasted through runoff, evaporation, or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Garden envy. We all have it, looking at yards that seem more glorious than ours. If you spend your days tilling, toiling, weeding and watering, while those ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A progressive city-sponsored program that offers financial incentives for Aurora residents who aim to conserve water is catching on, officials say. The ...

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — Denver metro cities are responding to the drought by changing the way we use water. Aurora, for example, is prohibiting front lawns to be installed in newly built homes ...

Can you believe it?! My alphabet themed garden articles are now to X. Almost at the end, and X is a challenge for named flowers or plants. But xeriscape is a perfect fit, coming from the Greek word ...

Lower water bills? Less garden maintenance with beautiful results? We need to consider a different method of gardening with little maintenance and designed to work in harmony with nature, not against ...