Landscapes
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 Lush, thick, green landscapes provide havens from the stresses of the world. Designing, nurturing, and caring for living plants in flower and vegetable gardens provide healthy hobbies for people. Sports fields have to have grass for both pleasure and safety reasons. People need green spaces but so do birds and other wildlife for sanctuaries.
Maintaining these landscapes takes time, effort, and the use of resources, like water. Plant life needs water for survival. In most areas of the state, natural rainfall is not sufficient to meet the water demands of landscapes. Supplemental irrigation must be supplied to maintain healthy and thriving landscapes. Plant protection chemicals or pesticides and plant growth compounds such as fertilizer are required to establish and maintain desirable plant growth too. Water and other resources can, however, be misused leading to wasteful use of water and potential contamination of the environment. This website is dedicated to providing research based, unbiased information dedicated to the efficient use of water in the landscape and the safe and effective use of plant protection and growth chemicals. Our world is a beautiful place to live and thrive. Each of us has a responsibility to protect it's beauty and to use the earth's resources wisely. Useful Links: Water Gardening In Texas. Water gardens had their beginnings in the fabric of both human history and the processes of Mother Nature. As civilizations grew and segregated into classes of the wealthy and the workers, those who could afford to began to have homes built away from the farming areas but wanted to bring with them the beauties of these areas. These gardens, though at first for food and medicinal herbs, soon became elaborate display areas. Eventually the upper classes and royalty built gardens to bring the whole realm of the world to their front door. Gardens like Versailles in France soon stood for the opulence of the elite. This opulence is still a much sought pleasure, but today anyone with the determination and a little money can have a water garden in his or her own backyard.
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