Beginner Gardening: Anyone gotten rid of their front lawns?, 1 by golddog

golddog wrote:
Although, if the grass is removed, weeds of all makes will enter. Our town has removed the grass from around all the monuments and such. Filling with wood mulch. After 3 months the weeds are in places 3' high. So in this case removing existing grass will create a high maintenance area (remulching and weeding). My garden is definitely high maintenance with the removal of grass. But I now have my favorites wall to wall. Mrs. Cooke, 2 houses down, told one of my neighbors that I have a lot of weeds. Weeds they might look to her, but to me the garden is just what I want it to be.