That's because a growing number of homeowners in the sun city find that keeping their lawns green is costing them too much green.

That's thanks in big part to our current extreme drought.

Homeowners like Anna Franko say her water bills have been as high as $300 in a single month.

"Despite our efforts to keep it green, it was never really, really perfectly nice. So we decided to go with something clean," Franco tells KFOX 14.

That clean look is best described as what the landscaping industry calls "Desertscaping."

"My husband and I, we've been walking the neighborhood and we see other people's landscape with rock," Franco added.

And the trend of homeowners using rocks to landscape their yards has translated into big business for landscapers like Joe Lomeli, who is working on Franco's yard.

"I would say for the past 10 years, homeowners have been converting over to desert landscaping. And so I would say probably looking the mature neighborhoods, 95 percent of the homes have already converted," Lomeli said.

Lomeli claims the savings after switching are tremendous.

"I'm going to say today that after converting it to rock with a few evergreen shrubs, that they're probably going to spend probably at the most 5 percent of what they were using."

Anna say she hopes with her new yard, she'll sweat less when she gets the water bill.

For more information on water conservation, click here. http://www.epwu.org/conservation/community_education.html