Keep Wimberley Beautiful: Native Grasses for a lawn
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By Jackie Mattice
I was shocked when I first learned that on average, in the summer, 70 percent of the water we use in Central Texas is for our landscape. When we collect the rainwater from our roof and use it to water our landscape we are helping our aquifer by pumping significantly less water.
Much of the landscape water usage goes to watering turf grass. May 6 Mark Simmons, of Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, wrote an article published in the Austin American Statesman in which he advocated the use of a mixture of native grasses to replace the monoculture of non-native grasses such as St. Augustine (from pan-tropics ) and Bermuda (from Africa).
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