Designed for landscapers but helpful to all, this guide showcases a range of inspiring design ideas to help you transform lawns with vibrant, water-wise plants.

Developed by the City of Santa Barbara, this factsheet offers simple, practical tips for watering young and mature trees. The principles apply statewide—helping you keep trees healthy, save water, and protect these vital community assets during drought.

Produced by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, this guide covers everything you need to know about planting, watering, mulching, and maintaining healthy trees—plus details on rebates available when adding trees as part of turf replacement projects.

Trees are some of the most valuable parts of our landscapes, offering shade, beauty, and habitat. This guide shows how to protect them during turf removal—covering irrigation updates, mulching, and tree-friendly design—so you can save water without sacrificing your trees.

This marketing toolkit equips landscaping companies with ready-to-use graphics, social media copy, and blog content to promote lawn-to-landscape services—helping you attract clients, explain California’s turf rules, and showcase the beauty and value of water-wise design.   Social Media Graphics:  

Want landscaping clients to understand the ‘why’ behind turf removal? This fact sheet gives contractors clear talking points on California’s new rules, cost savings, performance benefits, and best practice design strategies.

This guidance helps city planners and plan check staff integrate AB 1572 into project reviews—covering updates to applications, codes, and site plan requirements—so municipalities can ensure new developments comply with California’s turf restrictions while promoting water-wise landscapes.

Transforming public lawns into water-wise landscapes? This guidance helps municipalities identify funding opportunities—state, federal, and nontraditional—and provides best practices for planning, partnerships, and grant success.

Does your city or county manage public parks, rights-of-way, or municipal lawns? This flyer guides public agencies through California’s new turf rules—showing how to repurpose nonfunctional lawns into attractive, water-smart landscapes that cut costs and support community sustainability.

Curious how one city tackled nonfunctional turf? This case study walks through the City of Loomis’s strategy to convert public lawns into water-wise landscapes—showing lessons learned, design choices, cost outcomes, and community impact.