San Antonio Water Systems (SAWS) is offering customers $100 coupons on landscape materials if you replace lawn grass with drought tolerant plants. The Watersaver Landscape Coupon will start this Saturday at the Festival of Flowers.
To receive the coupon, you need to do the following:
1. Apply for the coupon with SAWS. Online applications will be available 6/1 or you can call 210-704-7283.
2. Once application is approve, customer will receive $100 coupon which can be used at a participating nursery.
3. Replace 200 sq ft of lawn with 15 plants chosen from a list of drought tolerant plants.
4. You must also cap any automatic sprinkler heads in that section of the lawn and use at least one yard of mulch.
5. You can apply for up to 2 coupons if you are planning on doing 400 sq. ft.
SAWS offers two plant lists; one for shade and one for sun. Each list contains several plants in three different categories; small evergreen, spreading perennials and large shrubs. To qualify for the rebate you need to include at least three varieties of plants, one from each of the categories. The specified plants need only hand watering to get established, then little if any water to survive.
"We are trying to lower people's upfront costs and give them the opportunity to get a significant discount off the materials they need to make a transformation in their landscape," according to SAWS conservation director Karen Guz.
If you are up for a DIY landscape project, the rebate offers a great incentive to transform a patch of your grass into a beautiful xeriscape bed that will save you water.
