Instead of endless wastelands of mowed grass lawns, consider:
True! Unless you can find an economical way to irrigate, more appropriate lawn alternatives in hotter, more arid places might lean more to prairie meadows using local grasses and wildflowers:
Or, they might mean doing classic landscaping, but with rocks and xeriscape plants:
Or having a cactus garden:
There are lots of exciting possibilities once you throw the classic turf lawn out the window!
these are all so beautiful and all I can think is ‘that stone arc isn’t a stargate and I’m sad about it’
These are beautiful! Altho please keep in mind before castigating all lawn owners that not everyone with a lawn has the time, skill, or budget to care for these gorgeous layouts or gardens. Most of these are cearly professionally planted. My mom is a former master gardener of Ohio and has spent literally two decades getting her flowerbeds where they are now, and they still have big chunks of lawn that don’t always get used. Please dont automatically condemn someone for having a lawn, the size of the lawn is not always a reliable indicator of independent wealth and free time.
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