I have no lawn, but I have a beautiful front yard. Some localities encourage or require lawns, while others have no restrictions and allow gardeners to develop beautiful landscapes. For gardeners with freedom and desire to create a diverse and interesting yard, avoiding a lawn and planting flowers, bushes, trees, and ornamental grasses can be a great option. (Video #202)
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25 Comments
thank you for this video, good to know i am not along in this. My neighbor fertilizes his grass weekly and even twice.
I am also planning to do landscape without grass
Thanks for sharing
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I love your "lawn"!!
even good looking lawns are very bad for the environment, including being a waste of water
so now lawn is the way for me
I love the idea of a no grass landscape. I have been slowing doing this to my backyard and I'm loving the joy it is bringing me. You are right about how adding more plants to the garden is so much more garden more interesting than grass. It has made me enjoy my backyard ten folds more. Thank you for this video as I was contemplating on what to do with the remainder of the grass in my backyard. I don't think I need to overthink my decision 🙂
I'm converted most of our front yard to flower beds, slowly but surely!
What kind of mulch do you use on top? Or, is it a specific kind of mulch? I like the color.
Far too many termites out where I live, to go attracting them by spreading pine bark everywhere?
This is what I want to do. Great video
Poor tree.
I have a swimming pool in my backyard and I will be getting rid of it soon. Looking into converting my backyard and hopefully my front yard into a vegetable and flower garden. Thank you for the video, hope to get some good ideas from your channel. I am a bit nervous to start because I do not know how much work and money will go into the project. I cannot afford to hire a landscaping company so I will have to do all the work myself. I hope I do not give up on my idea.
My husband and I were driving through the countryside and I saw pastures filled with cows. I commented that a lot of native habitat was plowed down to grow grass for cows. And then it clicked that much of the lawn culture we have is due to status. You need grass to have cows and cows were considerable assets long ago. It was a sign of wealth to have grass and cows. And maybe that’s why the practice continues.
It’s morphed a lot where men compete with other men in their neighborhoods for good lawns. But indeed I do believe the status marker is still there.
We have 2.2 acres and my husband gets the front part of the house as his lawn. I’m planning to make a raised bed garden and forest garden with the rest of it. If I had it my way, I think I would just make the front lawn a native meadow lol.
We have a third of an acre and have gotten rid of half the lawn so far, working on it! Veggie garden, fire pit, gravel pathways, flower beds, moss and creeping ground covers
Great unique video that offers the other side of coin. Love everything you said jn this video
We have to pay for the water too, so we have two 1400 gallon tanks buried in the backyard that take the roof water. So we have enough free water for vegetables, flowers and bushes.
OMG, now I've read what lawn means in America. And that there are even laws to create and maintain one. How happy am I that I live in a country where flowers are allowed to bloom everywhere.
Thank goodness I don’t have an HOA. I’m having red pine straw placed on my dead lawn. Then I’m going to sit potted plants on top of that.
I'm doing this but not because of a high water bill but because I hate cutting my grass lol
The butterflies are awesome!
i have no lawn mower no lawns trry to get a natural wilderness
I find lawns so deeply rooted with the psyche of "keeping up with the Jones"
My lawn requires very little water I mow very high . I've watered my lawn 1 time this year and have a buetiful green lawn . My neighbors mow short and have yellow brown grass. In my opinion the most buetiful yards are the ones that have a combination of both.
Hi Gardener Scott. I love this idea. I moved into my home June 2020 and didn't do much to my already very green lawn because I was doing lots of renovations but I did realize lots of my time had to go mowing the lawn! Plus I have a huge backyard. I agree that if one can do an alternate lawn idea they must do it. My sister currently lives in San Antonio and is wishing she had green grass for her pup but I may send her this video so she has other ideas.
I hope my tough neighbors will get rid of their lawns so I can follow their foot steps since I'm not good at being an oddity adding to the fact that we've had the most vegetation in our front and backyard already and don't want more attention than that.