Building on last week’s column on The Knox County Safety Rest Area landscape, this week’s column continues with the theme of sensible water stewardship in a landscape using xerophytic plants.
Xeriscaping, or xeric landscaping, is the practice of landscaping while minimizing supplemental irrigation.
“Xeriscape” (ZERE-ih-skape) combines the Greek word ‘xeros’, meaning dry, with the word ‘landscape’ cr…