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How big is the lawn, how sunny is it, and what do you want instead? You’ll get a price range, your rebate, the water you’d save and the plants that fit.

Pace it out: length times width, in feet.

Sun
Style
Extras
Your rebate Per square foot

Water agencies set their own rebates and rules, and most want to approve the yard before the lawn comes out. Check yours first.

Plants for this yard

Full sun, Mediterranean. Change the answers above and these change too.

All the plant tags
CA native Clusters of small blue California lilac flowers

California lilac

Ceanothus

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 4–8 ft tall

Blue flowers in spring that bees cover. Skip summer water once it’s settled.

California native

Purple lavender flower spikes against a pale blue background

Lavender

Lavandula

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 2–3 ft tall

Fragrant, loved by bees, and happiest in soil that drains fast.

Mediterranean

Red and orange kangaroo paw flowers up close

Kangaroo paw

Anigozanthos

  • Full sun
  • Moderate water
  • 2–4 ft tall

Fuzzy flower stalks that hummingbirds visit for months.

Australia

Flat clusters of bright yellow yarrow flowers

Yellow yarrow

Achillea ‘Moonshine’

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 1–2 ft tall

Flat yellow flowers all summer over soft gray leaves.

Garden hybrid

What the price includes

  1. Lawn out

    Cut, removed and hauled away, sprinkler heads capped.

  2. Soil and mulch

    Soil loosened, compost worked in, three inches of mulch on top.

  3. Plants

    Planted and watered in, with a tag left by each one.

  4. A walk-through

    How the drip works and what to expect the first summer.

Sample Prices are examples. Water savings use the Metropolitan Water District’s estimate of 42 gallons a year per square foot of lawn; your yard may save more or less.