Evergreen MD Xeriscape Applic

• Project Type: Ag/Muni Grant
• Applicant: Evergreen Metropolitan District
• Project Name: Water Plant Xeriscape Garden
• Title: Grant Application
• Date: 11/27/1996
• County: Jefferson
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Application

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EVALUATION/MONITORING

We will be able to evaluate our outreach by the numbers of
materials distributed and which ones and also by the numbers of
people reached through newspapers and other publications. The
garden has enjoyed good publicity thus far including articles in
the following publications:
-Canyon Courier
-Upbeat Newspaper (mountain area volunteer publication)
-Xeriscape Colorado/article by Ken Ball
-Submission for design award from Jefferson County
-Brook Forest Publishing (article yet to come)

BENEFITS

Our goal is to educate and demonstrate to the community
landscapes that will survive and thrive in our semi-arid mountain
region in spite of our difficult growing conditions and continual
challenges with our native wildlife.

TIME TO COMPLETE

This is an on-going project with the first Phase completed in the
Fall of 1996. The work proposed in this grant would be Phase II
and would be completed by the Spring of 1998.