Lawns suck rule

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We introduced a ton of clover into our lawn 4 years ago and have been letting it self-seed & spread. It's been great.

My boomer-y neighbors don't like it and make comments, but ours is the only green lawn for several blocks because it hasn't rained for shit all summer. Plus we have wildflower areas so we also have all kinds of bumblebees, butterflies, and dragonflies cruising around.

I showed this to my city's By-law officer. No luck...

I was talking to a guy at my neighbor's party and he asked how I keep my lawn looking so good. I said "I mow it infrequently, keep it long, and don't try to get rid of weeds." In the hottest part of the summer mine still looks good, and it's full of clover and dandelions for the bees.

Except the "chad biodiverse prairie" lawn usually looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/SWDm3fG

I hate lawns. They suck water like nothing, require a lot of work and never look quite the way you want.

But let's keep things in perspective here. The big argument against lawns is water use. I agree. But in California, for example, all residential water use accounts for less than 15% of the total use of water in the state.

If we want to save the environment we should start with what's taking the remaining 85%.

I grew up in a rural area where most lawns had lots of clover, wildflowers, stuff like that. Never realized that’s considered “unusual” until I left the area and realized, “wow, most suburbs don’t have that!”

living in North American style suburbia 🗿

I can't play catch in a field of wild flowers, also snakes.

I'm trying to get that. The red clover took over and the bees love it.

A colorful biodiverse lawn is nice and all, but I'd prefer not to be harassed by all my neighbors, eaten alive by bugs, and be unable to use the lawn for anything other than looking at and feeling smug.

Do we have a nolawn here on Lemmy?

Say goodbye to lawns! Yes!

If you dont atleast have 1 part of your garden unmowed youre a weirdo with bad taste to me

I wish I could HoA would throw a fit. Long term plan is more rual and will try to keep it local for most of the "lawn"

Second photo reminds me of when I visited the Scottish Highlands and I miss it so bad.

Ticks are gross. But also where the hell do you live that you can buy a lawn‽

Our garden looks much more like the right one :) Like there is still grass, but first, it's not pure grass, but with daisies, dandelions and tons of other stuff like it between it, and it doesn't get always mown to nothing.
And additionally to the grass, there are so many huge bushes, many flowers, trees, full of different flowering colourful beautiful things, and just so many plants and big amounts of green and much place for bees and whatever they like :D