Low Water Use Gardens

Some ideas for low water use gardens

Gravel, cacti and and grasses. The grass on the left is 'Purple Fountain Grass' a sterile hybrid. It grows rapidly in dense clumps of burgindy foliage up to 1.5 m. Foxtail like blooms. 

This low water use garden features heavy mulching of sugar cane, massed planting of Agaves, Golden Robinia (Robinia pseudocacia 'Frisia'), Libertias - no supplementary water required here on a site with an annual rainfall of 400 mm.