Xeriscaping—don’t call it ‘zero’scaping!

From the garden

Building on last week’s column on The Knox County Safety Rest Area landscape, this week’s column continues with the theme of sensible water stewardship in a landscape using xerophytic plants.

Xeriscaping, or xeric landscaping, is the practice of landscaping while minimizing supplemental irrigation.

“Xeriscape” (ZERE-ih-skape) combines the Greek word ‘xeros’, meaning dry, with the word…