Since lawns are bad for the environment, what do you think lawns should be replaced with?
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https://submatrix.net/article/Polls/CYL6qLm7eL
I might add some of the suggestions
Since lawns are bad for the environment, what do you think lawns should be replaced with?
Optional poll if you want, since this place doesn’t have polls,
https://submatrix.net/article/Polls/CYL6qLm7eL
I might add some of the suggestions
There’s a type of clover, I think. I saw it on Reddit a few years ago. I only remember it’s green and short and sort of looks like grass, but is better for some reason, I don’t remember its advantages over grass.
Here in NM, we mostly use rocks. This is common in front yards:
For backyards with kids, it’s real grass if you can afford the water, or fake grass and gravel. Without kids, it’s pavers, a pergola with furniture, and native plants along the walls/fence.
Rocks are so. fucking. hot. Landscaping with rocks increases the ambient temperature around your house by like 10 degrees vs. bare dirt. Even in New Mexico, there are so many native trees and shrubs. Please shade the ground and help keep your neighborhood cooler
In my neighborhood, each house has a large cottonwood (or other type) tree for shade, plus bushes, juniper, etc. and 3/4 of the houses have a plot of grass of about 100 sq ft, in the front yard. The other houses have only rocks. OP asked about options without grass, though.
Miniclover maybe. There’s a few varieties. I totally didn’t buy some bags a few years ago and accidentally dumped them in with the grass. That’s what I’d tell my HOA anyway. This year it’s coming back again slowly again.