Down The Sewer Pipe – Politically Speaking

There is a lot of talk these days on conserving water.  Let the lawn turn brown, no oxygen producing grass. Plant drought resistant plants, in the wettest spring in one hundred years, and use native plants.

Using native plants would mean that, in the Northwest, using:

• Dogwood
• Sugar Pine
• Douglass fir
• Vine maple
• Broadleaf maple
• Raspberries
• Logan berries
• Strawberries
• Rhododendrons
• Lilacs
• Lilly’s
• Some roses
• Arbor Vitas
• Cider
• Heather
• Oak

And a lot more, that I will not name, because the list would be so very long.  When making legislation for your community, look around.  Because some things, like Iris plants, are drought resistant but not local, virtually all the early spring bulbs we plant aren’t local either. But due to the weather they seem to grow rather well.

You could try this approach, compile a list of the native plants, including garden ones, and then offer a money off coupon in the newspaper.  Say ten bucks off for Rhododendrons, if you live in Oregon, so that people will turn them into hedges.  They stay green all year around, don’t need a lot of water after the first year, and produce as much oxygen as ten square feet of lawn.

In this manor you can assist your community from the trip, down the sewer pipe.

Sherman