Backyard Xeriscape Landscape Design

This backyard xeriscape design picture shows the wall as well as what will soon be a Buffalo and Blue Gramma grass lawn. Both grasses are ornamental, low water use, and low maintenance.

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Drystack Wall & Plants
Flagstone Path & Blue Flax
Retaining Wall & Fake Dry River Bed

Plants In This Backyard

• Coreopsis - Lawn and Flower Bed
• Red Tip Yucca
• Texas Sage
• Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
• Desert Willow - Tree
• Blue Gramma - Ornamental Lawn Grass
• Hybrid Buffalo Grass - Lawn
• Blue Flax - Lawn

We're doing some experimenting with this type of lawn. We've even put it in a few front yards but haven't used it in the back. In this combination it's ornamental and doesn't require much mowing. However, if you remove the Blue Gramma from the mix, the Buffalo Grass can make a wonderful drought tolerant lawn.

Another element we created for atmosphere and purpose in this southwest landscaping idea is the fake dry river bed. This one isn't purely cosmetic. The rock is actually very thick and will hold excess water. It is under lain with professional landscape fabric and not plastic so it will drain into the ground.

One more thing about this picture. You can see in the lawn area of this xeriscaping idea that there are flowering plants planted in with the lawn grass. This will help create a very wild naturalized look as it grows in.

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