Let's Be More Thrifty With Our Lawns

We all want to be careful with our money and try to stray away from wasteful spending. You find an expensive dress so why, in the end do you not purchase the dress? Self control and thriftiness help most people out of this situation. They realize that they don’t really need the dress but, rather they have a desire to keep the item. So this concept must go towards taking care of your lawn too. Right? Actually having a fresh green lawn isn’t very thrifty or necessary.

That’s why planting natives are a much simpler solution to fit most peoples’ desire to be thrifty. Watering your lawn is not like what most shopaholics say. "The more you buy, the more you save" because in reality you're doing the opposite of saving anything in this situation. Gallons of water are wasted instead of conserving the water for other scenarios. Natives prevent the wasting of water because of their previous adaptation to the environment and are therefore a much better alternative to watering lawns.

Native Plants Help Save The Environment

I enjoy my daily walk through the neighborhood; the trees shimmering with sunlight and the birds chirping with gladness. Every day seems fresh and new, but suddenly that feeling changed when I was walking to collect the newspaper.

The soft sound of a repetitive ticking lingered in the air, then I realized the ticking was a sprinkler system of a neighbor, who of course had a fabulous lawn, which was free of weeds and there was not a dead patch of grass in sight. Our water is not an element to waste, especially not in our present economy I thought as the sprinklers carried on. There are certainly plenty of other options to decorate your yard with, rather than nurturing a million blades of grass, but what?

Ahh! A native garden of course. They require almost no water, no pesticides for killing insects, conserve water, and they help the production of wildlife in the area. If only those poor people knew about these wonderful plants before wasting money on their grass to keep it oh so green.

Oh well, I thought as I dragged myself and the newspaper back inside.