We believe in gardens, but not lawns, so we've established a garden and planted a lot of trees and bushes, either fruit/nut or native species, to feed ourselves or our local wildlife.

But we let the rest of the lawn go, and also be naturally brown during the drier months.

A no-no, per our real estate agent, who even brought in a senior RE agent to bolster her claim that I ought to green up the lawn by wasting water.

And that's why I am watering weeds