Landscapers in Santa Fe, NM

Check out the Garden in a Box. https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/03/20/boulder-nonprofit-promoting-water-saving-garden-in-a-box/ You'll have to water it as it gets established and when it's dry, but it's low-to-no water use for much of the growing season.

People are recommending Garden in a Box, which is great, but there is a free option through Resource Central as well. It's called Grass to Garden [https://resourcecentral.org/lawn/g2 g/](https://resourcecentral.org/lawn/g2 g/). We did this last year in Louisville. It was super easy, and we got 52 plants for free with minimal effort to get started.

I work for a company that does xeriscaping work in and around Boulder and have worked with native grasses before. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need help.

Creeping red fescue is a good native, drought tolerant turf replacement, and it eventually chokes out weeds. If you could find someone on nextdoor etc to till your lawn and lay down seeds you could probably get by pretty cheaply.

I would check out Harlequins Gardens in North Boulder. They have one of the best selections of xeriscape plants on the Front Range. [https://harlequinsgardens.com/](https://harlequinsgardens.com/) Don't forget that there are a lot of low-maintenance native plants that will provide food for you as well. American plum, golden currant, Fremont's mahonia, prickly pear, etc.. Concord grape is pretty easy too.

We're doing much the same thing this coming summer. Design is by Alison with Matrix Gardens. Install will be Melissa with Open Spaces by Melissa. How many people jumped on the Garden in Box train and can't read your not able to install yourself?

We got a chip drop for our front yard in Longmont. Goodbye grass hello mulch. It looks go and was very very easy.

I really like Thad Napp with Panorama (used to be independent but sold his business to Panorama and now designs for them)

[High Country Gardens](https://www.highcountrygardens.com/) sells drought tolerant/native plants according to your location. They will also warranty plants.

Also recommending Garden in a Box. We got our first one four years ago and have added a couple more since. Expect to water them like “normal” for the first growing season, but after that they are pretty self-sufficient. It does take a couple years for them to really grow in but we’ve been very happy with them!

Denver Botanic Gardens are a great resource for xeriscaping info. [Here](https://www.5280.com/2019/05/the-beginners-guide-to-xeriscape-in-denver/) is a guide with other resources as well.

We live in a neighborhood with an HOA that requires a certain percentage of the yard be softscape vs hardscape so whatever we do needs to comply with that requirement too.

I don't see anyone here mentioning clover - but I'd suggest looking into adding clover to your grass. It's drought-tollerant, green, soft (and if it goes to flower bees will love you).

I don't know anything about this, but I would be happy to help with physical labor.

Check out the [Garden in a Box](https://resourcecentral.org/gardens/shop/) program, it may be a good, inexpensive place to start for you. The kits contain native and water-wise plants/flowers. Reserve your box(es) early, they typically sell out each year.

Check with your local water dept. Denver Water gave us $1500.00 a few years ago to xeriscape our yard.