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Every lawn is a place where native bugs and plants used to be able to reproduce and grow into a healthy, stable ecosystem -- but now they can't.
But more than that they waste your resources and time. Mowing the lawn. Weeding the lawn. Feeding the lawn. Watering the lawn. Resodding the lawn. For what? To what end?
Meanwhile, even the simplest garden planted with care and attention can do all these things for itself with little intervention.
Liberate yourself from your lawn. Rebuild the ecology that makes the land around your home a special and unique place.
peggleforscale
Just add clover.
DrArsMoriendi
I don't want a big lawn. I want a meadow. With wildflowers.
cptwott
We don't cut the lawn anymore. Better for the bees and for me.
HapilyDamaged
PLEASE and thank you!
KnifeKnut
I'm inclined to agree, but they make a very useful flexible space for activities without paving over the area
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Agreed! Sometimes lawns are delightful. But I think we can agree that those lawns are the exception that proves the rule, no?
UrKungFuNoGood
let's see a picture of your yard?
peggleforscale
I wish we could, truly do.
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Lol you want a picture of my house from the street eh? That's gonna be a big no cmon now
HeyoooItsMe
HeyoooItsMe
A patch of lawn for activities and the calm peacefulness it gives many- surrounded by pollinator-favored native plants.
Gilgamech
Or just be bad at lawn care, and have half of it be overtaken with clover.
ohsoserial
I replaced my whole lawn with clover. The dogs love it, I get bees, hummingbirds and elk all the time. It’s great.
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That is also a fine suggestion!
sniggly5212
Yep. I'm doing it for the bees. That's what I'm sticking to.
engineeringwombocombo
Honestly prefer clover to grass but i have an HOA that requires a lawn.
Crawmak
Bumblebees love thistle!
overpolitemidwesterner
That's what I did! Plus swaths of wild flowers bring added shortly
JustAPileOfCats
Apparently clover is invasive?
Gilgamech
So are blackberries. At this point, I'm surprised when a plant *isn't* invasive.
JustAPileOfCats
Fair. I would favor a clover lawn over a boring ass grass lawn, that's for sure. Native plants would be better, if you have that many years.
Helixninja333
Sure, the lawns are crap for the environment, but I'd wager that all those literal parking lots are a hell of a lot worse, making this /1
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/2 argument sound like plastic drinking straws, ie: putting the blame on the individual rather than the large corps with nothing but
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/3 a sea of worthless and empty parking lots.
fowlersleftfoot
Why don’t you just go and actually read about it instead of “reckoning”
IOftenWearClothing
Isnt the entire point of a lawn to act as a buffer of poisoned and razed wasteland between the natural world and your personal box?
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Originally lawns were a sign of opulence at a time when working the land would be needed to eke out a living for most people.
ialwaysexpectthespanishinqusition
basically "look at all this land I'm not using for anything"
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And look at how many people are employed keeping it so spic and span