Quote Originally Posted by Dragonrider View Post
The same "desert climate" that makes me laugh whenever people talk about Oregon and Washington as a green, lush paradise. Central, Eastern, and Southern Oregon are all "high" or "low" desert...not the sandy desert most people think of, but the sagebrush country where you can see twenty miles in every direction and the only three trees in your line of sight are a hundred years old and three feet tall.

We get ~10-12 inches of rain per year here, but the next town over gets about four. The average lawn requires 36 inches a year. Water is a huge problem here...we do a lot of xeriscapic gardening.
...The pacific northwest has deserts? O.o