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  • Landscaping with Austin’s climate in mind

    Landscaping with Austin’s climate in mind

    By Katherine Kahlke
    Published: Aug. 12, 2011

    The university is transforming plant beds around campus into xeriscaped spaces with native plants that require less watering.

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      Aaron Boyd said on Jan. 18, 2012 at 8:27 p.m.
      I had a chance to visit the campus and was amazed at the beauty of the local plant material. Being in the landscaping industry it was great to see the smart usage of a local low water consumption plant to both reduce cost and impact on the environment. Hopefully your broad scale adoption of this technique will alter consumer demand for high impact plants and change our industry for the better! great work!
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      Rick Villalva said on Sept. 4, 2011 at 1:01 p.m.
      Wish I could see it ... looks like UT is learning something from its El Paso counterpart... usually our UT traditions are the other way around.
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