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August 27, 2014

Californians rip out lawns to cope with long drought

By AMY TAXIN
Associated Press

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rick Blankenship was tired of an insatiable lawn he couldn't keep green, no matter how he watered it, so he decided to tear it out.

Three years later, he brims with pride at his new front yard in Long Beach, California, carpeted with natural sage- and emerald green-colored ground covers and shaded by flowering magnolia and peppermint willow trees.


 
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