Beginner Gardening: Anyone gotten rid of their front lawns?, 0 by lupinelover

lupinelover wrote:
SoCal, I love your front yard! It may take a couple of years before your neighbors get the hint to start their own conversions, but it will happen if it is like around here. Very gradually people in our part of town have eliminated or greatly reduced their front lawn grass and put in other things, and one or two neighbors follow suit within a few years, and after a while, about 1/3 of the homes in the vicinity have done similiar kinds of things. The best part is, none of them are identical, so the city looks, and behaves (horticulurally speaking), much better. Many fewer plant diseases than normal, etc.

Roshana, I have been looking for a good photo of the thyme lawn at Inniswood, but I haven't found a decent one. I put a pretty poor photo of mine below, but I don't have the ability to take a wonderful photo. Maybe I can lure a good photographer to come get a better one next spring :) Right now the shrub barrier is overgrown, and I must wait until the winter to prune it back. That's one of my brothers, by the way. The missionary.