What is 'water-wise' gardening?
Water-wise gardening uses either native plants or plants that may not be native to the area but are suited to the climate that you're in. That has a lot of the benefits of native plants in that it uses less water or uses the amount of water that's associated with the area that you live in. Water-wise gardening doesn't necessarily have the benefits of providing habitat for native plants, but it does definitely carry the benefit of reducing the amount of water that's used.