KQED KQED Newsroom May 30, 2015
Years. And that to me is a tremendous compliment, because madrones dont like people and houses. So if a madrone grows, you feel like youre doing things right. She spends much of her free time in her garden as her mother once did. My mother who had a house on this same ridge and who came from the east, was determined to put an eastern garden on a california hillside and she did so. So we had three lawns, two of which were very large indeed. But with no end in sight to the drought taylor is breaking with tradition. Shes gotten rid of her lawn. Like many californians, lawns themselves were east c...