Georgetown's Love Your Local Lawn Rebate: How to Get Up to $5,000 for Native Landscaping

Georgetown offers up to $5,000 per year for turf-to-native conversion. One of the most generous programs in Texas. The Love Your Local Lawn program runs through Georgetown Utilities. Pre-approval required. Apply at gtx.conservationrebates.com before you break ground.

How the Love Your Local Lawn program works

The program covers turf conversion, irrigation upgrades, compost, mulch, aeration, and soil testing. Combined rebates. Residential customers can get up to $5,000 per year. Commercial up to $8,000. Applications go through a partner, EGIA. The fiscal year runs October 1 to September 15. Funds are first-come, first-served. Apply early.

You must be a Georgetown Utilities water customer. The area you convert has to be existing turf. Check the Georgetown city page for current details. Rebate amounts and rules can change.

What you need before you apply

Before photos. A plan showing what you'll plant and where. Your utility account info. Don't start work until you have approval. If you rip out grass before pre-approval, you won't get the rebate. That's the rule that trips people up.

The application portal walks you through it. You'll submit before photos, your plan, and then after photos once the work is done. Keep receipts. Itemized costs matter for some rebate components.

Plants that work in Georgetown

Georgetown soil is limestone-based. Alkaline, well-drained. Mealy Blue Sage has a clean upright form and blooms blue-purple spring through fall. Prairie Verbena is a low ground cover with purple flowers. Gulf Muhly gives you pink fall plumes. Cedar Sage thrives in rocky, shaded spots under live oaks. Texas Persimmon is a small ornamental tree with nice bark.

Georgetown has many HOA communities: Sun City, Wolf Ranch, Cimarron Hills. The Love Your Local Lawn documentation can support your case when you talk to your board. A written plan with plant list helps.

Stacking rebates: Love Your Local Lawn + LCRA

Georgetown residents may also qualify for LCRA WaterSmart rebates. Up to $3,000 total per property. Check with your water provider. If you get water from an LCRA customer utility, you might be able to stack both programs. That can add up. Apply to both before you start. Each has its own pre-approval process.

The rebate year runs October 1 to September 15. Apply at the start of the fiscal year for the best chance. Funds run out. Full Texas rebates list for comparison.