It might help to make it look more intentional, such as a bordered flowerbed with native plants in it that just happens to be the size of most of your front lawn.
I know a lot of people (family, etc) that feel like that, but at least you put it out there.
I’m in the process of letting nature take back parts of my own lawn now and even I get a little hesitant sometimes because as much as I love nature I don’t want to have fight my through a waist high jungle just to get into my house.
It also breaks my heart when I get any kind of tree seedlings popping up, and I get a lot, because I just don’t have the space to move them all when I just want to keep everything alive and growing.
Good job at least trying to do something. My current city and previous home city have finally started doing more native plantings and my current local city’s uni has started up a significant prairie restoration project right outside the city. There are also a few small prairie restorations going on inside city limits mostly in the burbs where there’s space but I can’t seem to find out what org is running them.
I showed this to my city’s By-law officer. No luck…
It might help to make it look more intentional, such as a bordered flowerbed with native plants in it that just happens to be the size of most of your front lawn.
I know a lot of people (family, etc) that feel like that, but at least you put it out there.
I’m in the process of letting nature take back parts of my own lawn now and even I get a little hesitant sometimes because as much as I love nature I don’t want to have fight my through a waist high jungle just to get into my house.
It also breaks my heart when I get any kind of tree seedlings popping up, and I get a lot, because I just don’t have the space to move them all when I just want to keep everything alive and growing.
Good job at least trying to do something. My current city and previous home city have finally started doing more native plantings and my current local city’s uni has started up a significant prairie restoration project right outside the city. There are also a few small prairie restorations going on inside city limits mostly in the burbs where there’s space but I can’t seem to find out what org is running them.