Despite recent rainstorms, San Diego’s drought continues and landscape architects worry that families and businesses are fighting back by replacing lawns with fake grass.

Instead, there’s a different plant-based path, a “San Diego Style” that favors succulents, native grasses and other materials appropriate to the Southern California climate, say the experts. Designers, contractors, planners and regulators will gather at the eighth annual seminar on sustainable turf and landscape open to the public Thursday at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego and sponsored by the Ornamental Horticulture Department.