Central Texas Gardening Turns the Yard Into a Dashboard

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The dashboard converts public conditions into several separate signals rather than collapsing them into a single watering recommendation. At the time of capture, it reported overall yard stress of 66 across 14 communities, with planting conditions at 28 and heat stress at 77. Its plant rankings put Yaupon Holly, Texas Sage, and Agarita at the top. The page also exposes raw JSON, downloadable datasets, methodology, and a stated public API with CORS support.