WaterSmart makeover: A blended vision in Vista

WaterSmart makeover: A blended vision in Vista

For The Union-Tribune If succulents could dream, they’d want to spend their lives growing and flowering in Thomas and Alice McCarter’s expansive garden. It’s clearly where all the cool succulents live in Vista. Pulling up to their cul-de-sac street, it’s impossible to miss. The plants, mostly succulents but also some cacti and bromeliads, and the occasional palm — perhaps sporting air plants — and bird of paradise that came with the house when t…