Kill your grass, go drought tolerant, native and freshly modern and retro all at the same time, AND get a rebate from the City of Pasadena. Killer.
Lawns typically use 50 percent more water than other plants. You can receive $1 for every square foot (up to $2,500 for residential customers) of water-thirsty grass that you replace with water-wise plants or a combination of these plants and water-permeable groundcover such as mulch.
