 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Garden writer Rosemary McCreary designed a water conservative garden for her home in the hills above Sonoma, California. Rosemary, I see a beautiful purple selenium here, but it looks like your friendly neighborhood wildlife enjoy this plant too. That's right, Curtis. This lovely potato bush has blossoms high enough now that the deer can't reach. This blue avina is spectacular. This is nice. It's a blue oat grass or helictotrochon sempervirons, an evergreen grass, and it likes a little bit of water, but you know it has some drip on the ground, but it's getting reflected heat as are some of these other grasses, and it's doing very well. I'm pleased with it. It's been there for two years. And your miscanthus looks good here. The miscanthus morning light, as you can see, it's catching the morning light here, kind of scattering it a little bit. It's just one of my favorites. As we move over here into a much harder area, we see that the blue oat grass is suffering a little bit. A little bit. Not badly. Not too bad. They're getting reflected heat from the driveway and from these stone bolts, yes, from the stone. So I like this. This is a pretty setting. Thank you. But it's also a hot setting, and so the time creeping over the rocks is helping cool it a little bit, and they're surviving it. And I look at these rocks and say, well, they're adding to the heat, but rocks are nice to have a landscape. Were these natural? Of course. Do you think I'd bring this one in? People do. People do. I know people who do, but you know, I have rocks here. I have a lot of rocks, and so I want to use them. And a beautiful bluegrass here. This is nice. I like it. This is a particular variety for the landscape. It's called Canyon Prince. The genus is limus. Limus condensatus. And I notice this is one of those grasses that tends to spread. It does. Because it takes drought, I don't give it any water, and without water it won't spread nearly as much. So I'm containing it by keeping it dry. It's a good thing to do. Really? So this is a brand new planting? This is brand new. Right. You know, things are still small now. They're trying to get established, and they're really going to come into their own after our winter rains begin. And I see you've got a lot of mulch, which is also a good way to conserve water. I do. Everything has a quarter-inch drip line underneath it. But I rely on four to six inches of mulch to hold in that moisture. So you can see here in front of this little frosty curls grass that I've got, you know, probably a good four inches. I had six inches, but it's sort of gone down now. This is a shredded redwood mulch, and underneath you see this peaking out. Oh, yes. You can't keep it hidden too well. No. It's hard in this area because of my rocks. We talked about my rocks before, you know, and here they are. I have a lot of them. So this is a little high spot where I didn't get the rocks out, and I'm covering this, trying to cover it with mulch. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.