 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. It's summertime and Stage 1 water restrictions are in effect. The water department wants to encourage people to have a green yard without using much water. The water department, along with its conservation committee in Britt, have created a landscape contest that we are calling EcoScape. The contest is open to residential landscapes in the Fort Worth city limits and in Fort Worth's wholesale customer cities. Basically a landscape that is minimum a thousand square feet and that conserves water, basically. We would like to showcase people, the non-believers, that you can have a green, beautiful lawn without the use of a lot of water, especially during the summer when we don't have a lot of rain. Steve has done just that. Well, I decided it was time to get rid of my grass. It was getting thin, thinner, more weeds were coming in and I was having difficulty controlling those weeds and I just thought, this is the time to get rid of the turf all together and so I came up with a design that would use other kinds of plants instead of grass. I used a herbicide to get rid of the grass and I made sure it was dead and then I incorporated the organic product, the compost and expanded shale, grated it, then I put some stepping stones, some sandstone across the lawn and then I fleshed out my design which included some salvia farinacea, a variety called evolution, I put some agaves out there, some variegated yuccas, one called color guard and then I filled the center of the yard with a ground cover rose called coral drift and then I put a large boulder out there just for accent so you actually walk through the garden and you're walking past different kinds of plants that add more diversity and interest to the landscape than just among the culture of turf and I don't have irrigation at all in my yard so if I need to water at all I will simply go out there with a sprinkler and run that during the hours that we can water or I can hand water. And don't worry, Steve cannot enter the contest since he is a city employee. The entry deadline is August 16th so submit your entry to WPE at Fort Worth Texas dot gov or call 817-392-6565. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings you can always check the calendar at the city's website.