Don’t Call It Xeriscaping: New Tips and Terms Have Evolved for Low-Water Yards

Denver Water may have coined the term xeriscaping in the 1980s, but employees stopped using it in 2024 in favor of ColoradoScaping.
Don’t Call It Xeriscaping: New Tips and Terms Have Evolved for Low-Water Yards
Rocky Mountain bee plants with purple flowers are some of the first new plants to grow in the transformed Quebec Street medians in northeast Denver. Denver Water/TNS
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By John Wenzel The Denver Post

DENVER—Trends come and go, but the semi-arid climate of the Front Range and Eastern Plains is here to stay.