Liz Baloutine of Seedlings Gardening creates and maintains gardens for Central Texas restaurants and catering companies, including Spoon & Co. And chef Meg Schwartz creates beautiful and delicious dishes like this one from the garden.

The site of lush green lawns and luxuriant flower borders have been known to take one’s breath away. Yet if the caretakers of such pastoral scenes are not wise in the ways of watering, the amount of water used to maintain them can cause you to gasp for breath.