He swapped his lawn for native plants after asking, 'What was meant to be here?'

'It's really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,' Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and ...
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A surprising $3,000 water bill ended their lawn. Then fire torched their yard. What next?

• After years of living in a condo, the Hinch family was ecstatic about the giant backyard of their new Porter Ranch home. • Then they got their first water bill of $3,000 and tore out much of their ...