No Texas statute or Guadalupe County ordinance forces a grass lawn. Residents may xeriscape with native, drought-tolerant plants, and Texas law blocks HOAs from banning water-conserving landscaping.
Guadalupe County sits in a hot, drought-prone stretch of Central Texas, and neither the state nor the county requires turf grass. Homeowners may replace lawn with native and drought-tolerant plantings suited to the region, such as Texas sage, native grasses, and pollinator beds. Texas Property Code Section 202.007 bars HOAs from prohibiting drought-resistant landscaping and xeriscaping, though an HOA may require a plan and reasonable design standards. Two practical limits remain: a city weed ordinance can still cite genuinely neglected overgrowth, so keep plantings tended; and water utilities push low-water landscaping during drought. Native plant lists come from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office.
None from the state or county for native landscaping itself. A neglected, overgrown planting can draw a city weed-ordinance notice, and an HOA may enforce reasonable design standards on an approved plan.
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