WATERSAVER LANE: You can save water and still have 
beautiful gardens. Find out more on Passport to Texas.

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It�s possible to conserve water and have a lush landscape. 
And they prove that point every day in San Antonio. 

The San Antonio Botanical Gardens is home to six 
miniature houses on Water Savers Lane, which showcase 
unique landscapes that feature water-saving designs. Sir 
Oliver Smith, a master naturalist, describes the typical 
landscape, complete with a water thirsty lawn.

13�This is what most people have. They have the traditional hedges at 
the door and all that manicuring you have to do every week. So this is 
probably what we don�t want if you want to save on money and save on 
grass and save on water.

For comparison, he points out an attractive landscape 
that replaces turf with groundcover.

07�People like this look; it�s a little less maintenance. And you�re 
replacing some of the lawn with Asiatic jasmine, which takes no water.

While the jasmine isn�t native, the others are. Native 
plants generally require less water to survive.

13�Everyone thinks native plants are just a sticky agarita and the 
yuccas and the sotals. But all the other things in this garden are native. 
Vitex and desert willow and redbud and there are a lot of other things 
that do very well with almost no water.

Check out the Wildscapes plant guide on the TPW website 
and discover which plants thrive in your area.

That's our show for today� Funding provided in part by 
Ram Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram

For Texas Parks and Wildlife I�m Cecilia Nasti.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/wildscapes/ecoregions/ 



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