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Well just finished another beautiful landscape here in Saraota Florida.  What we did was take hard to manage St. Augustine grass and replaced it with low maintenance plant material which not only will take very little water, fertilizer, and pesticides once established, it looks so much better. Our Sarasota plant selection was Coontie palms, Adonidia Palms, Beach sunflower, Bird of Paradise and large boulders, all drought tolerant Sarasota plants.  I love using boulders in landscapes, not only does it adds a nice contrast to the look of the landscape, but no maintenance, no water, and no fertilizer.  I wish every one practiced landscaping with native and or low maintence plant material, our water shortages and polluting of our water ways with fertilizers and pesticides is the reason we should all pracitice best mangement practices when designing our landscapes in Sarasota, look on the web for more information, remove water consuming grasses and replace with natives plants.