My Lawn Is Worse Than Yours
What’s a Southern California Homeowner to Do with High Water Bills, a Historic Drought, and No Consensus on What to Plant Instead?
Forgive me for bragging, but my front lawn looks a lot worse than yours.
As the drought deepens and the state water board revises its plans for mandatory restrictions this week, California’s lawn culture has flipped, dirt-side up. With outdoor watering being called a society-threatening scourge, your local community pillars, once celebrated for lawns and gardens even greener than their money, run the risk of becoming social outcasts.
On the other side of this flip is your columnist, who is allergic to lawn watering and pretty much all other forms of …
