{"id":79,"date":"2009-07-01T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/san-diego-drought-tolerant-landscaping\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:00:59","slug":"san-diego-drought-tolerant-landscaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/sustainability\/san-diego-drought-tolerant-landscaping\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego drought tolerant landscaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo alignright\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.idealistcafe.com\/images\/uploaded\/san-diego-drought-tolerant.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego drought tolerant landscaping\" border=\"0\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letzdesign.com\/xeriscape.php\">Letz Design<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I figured I&#8217;d share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2009\/jun\/24\/yanking-out-lawns-saves-water-and-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article about drought tolerant landscaping<\/a>, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xeriscaping\">Xeriscaping<\/a>, that I found via my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odemagazine.com\/\">Ode Magazine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive.com\/?u=09204162e37ac2ec56645b649&amp;id=1dc867bee3&amp;e=a581c6b154\">Newsletter<\/a>.  It&#8217;s especially relevant since I live in San Diego at a house with a lawn that uses irrigation.  It&#8217;s not very detailed about specific plants that can be used for making changes, but it is definitely food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>View article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2009\/jun\/24\/yanking-out-lawns-saves-water-and-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yanking out lawns saves water and money<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Interesting side note:<\/i> I started thinking about writing this post the other day while at work. Ironically, as I was pondering drought tolerant landscapes and the water shortages and new water rationing rules here in San Diego, I looked out the window into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petco_Park\" target=\"_blank\">Petco Park<\/a> to see them watering the <i>dirt<\/i> in preparation for the night&#8217;s baseball game.  My office is located in such a position that we can see down into the ball field, and I think based on what we see it&#8217;s safe to say that they are one of the biggest water wasters around.  Even next to the ball park is a public park, my guess under the same management, and it is watered so frequently that you sometimes can&#8217;t even walk in the grass because it&#8217;s so squishy from over watering.  Nice job city of San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo excerpt alignleft\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.idealistcafe.com\/images\/uploaded\/san-diego-drought-tolerant.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego drought tolerant landscaping\" border=\"0\" class=\"size-excerpt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Letz Design<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I figured I&#8217;d share interesting article about drought tolerant landscaping, known as Xeriscaping, that I found via my Ode Magazine Newsletter.  It&#8217;s especially relevant since I live in San Diego at a house with a lawn that uses irrigation.  It&#8217;s not very detailed about specific plants that can be used for making changes, but it is definitely food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>View article here: Yanking out lawns saves water and money<\/p>\n<p><i>Interesting side note:<\/i> I started thinking about writing this post the other day while at work. Ironically, as I was pondering drought tolerant landscapes and the water shortages and new water rationing rules here in San Diego, I looked out the window into Petco Park to see them watering the <i>dirt<\/i> in preparation for the night&#8217;s baseball game.  My office is located in such [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/sustainability\/san-diego-drought-tolerant-landscaping\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[21,30,27,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}