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Carole Mikita reporting If you are worried about your yards and gardens surviving during this drought, go native!
The Grateful Tomato Garden, located at 600 East 800 South, is basically a parking strip that the Utah Native Plants Society and Wasatch Community Gardens are using to encourage residents to grow what comes naturally to Utah.
They call it a Heritage Garden, featuring native plants of our state. This is the 23rd demonstration area volunteers have created. Growing these plants, the experts say, will cut your water needs in half the first year and after that, you will not have to water them at all.
The main purpose here is to get people to think differently about native plants, and creating an attractive landscape that doesn't require excess water.
Don Anderson/ Community Gardens Exec. Dir."PEOPLE THINK OF WATER-WISE GARDENS AS YUCCA AND CACTUS, BUT REALLY, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL PLANTS THAT FLOWER AND ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL AND DO VERY WELL IN THIS CLIMATE..."
And there's more good news. Most nurseries in our area carry these plants, so you can find them easily.
