Find out how Arizona landscape architect Pete Curé and his crew took a grass-filled residential backyard and transformed it into a desert botanical getaway.

Pete talks about using trees, plants, flagstone and granite as the backbone of his design, which includes patio spaces, pool decking, swales for rain runoff and a natural stone water feature.

Pete also stops by the community of Verrado in Buckeye, AZ and finds out what it takes to keep its large-scale landscaping irrigated.

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