pomonabelvedere

I confess to loving a green lawn, but lawns look very weird to me in places where the rest of the grass is dry. Apparently they started as a status symbol in England: manors had lawns to prove they had enough land to NOT run animals or grow crops on part of it. As ever, the habits of the rich were adopted by the middle class in miniaturized form, then continued until everybody things the insanity is normal. I think it's one of our ways of pretending we're not really connected to the rest of nature.

It is possible to have green lushness using appropriate plants in dry climates: I know this, because I've been doing it for years.