Nine Reasons to Have a Natural Lawn
This entry was posted on Oct 30 2007
There’s many good reasons to have a natural yard.
- You don’t have to water it.
- It goes totally dormant every winter. This means no lawn mowing for about six months!
- You get all kinds of weeds. The bonus to this is that if you let them grow out a little, most of them will produce colorful blooms.
- Fairies and leprechauns prefer to live in your yard.
- No money spent on fertilizer and other chemicals.
- Mushrooms. Lots and lots of mushrooms.
- Lots of cool critters like bees that dig burrows like ants do and the occasional grass snake.
- You don’t feel bad about tilling a plot for a garden since there was really no lawn there to begin with.
- Big patches of clover, as seen in this photo. It’s everywhere.
While I do like the visual appeal of a closely manicured lawn, I can’t see myself ever maintaining one. I thought about planting a “nice” lawn, but the native plants and weeds would take over in no time. Why try fighting what’s going to happen anyway? There’s certainly more things for me to photograph.
UPDATE: Debo Hobo pointed out the correct name of this stuff as sour grass, aka broadleaf woodsorrel. Thanks! 
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Haha, that’s how our backyard basically is…we call it The Jungle, lols.
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Love it, especially that leprechauns and fairies can live in the lawn. There’s been speculation that “The Monetizer” just might be a leprechaun in search of that missing pot of gold!
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I was trying to find an image of the Pinecone ginger in bloom but couldn’t find it. Has it bloomed yet? Well, I got my tickets to Florida yesterday, maybe I will see one on bloom in real life if they bloom in December.
Interesting weed you’ve got on your yard. In Finland weed just looks boring and… well, like weed.
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Ah yes the el natural lawn. It is so much easier to let Mother Nature do her thing then to go out and try to recreate “the wheel”. Now are those clovers or sour grass?
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I like the pattern in this picture, they look like little airplanes…or, it’s probably only my own fantasy who sees that way…:-)
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Joanne: I mowed the jungle a few days ago – hopefully for the last time this year, but I’m betting on two more, at most.
Monetizer: Is that you I see around my yard? Thanks for the compliments.
Susie: I’ve been checking them regularly, no blooms yet. They are close, as they have turned a reddish color and clear sap is beginning to drip out. I promise to post one when it happens. It’s nothing really dramatic, just a big bulb thing with small blooms on it.
Debo Hobo: I will update my post with your excellent correction. I didn’t have time to search out what it was, so I used “clover” as a default. Thanks for pointing out that it is indeed sour grass. Did you know the little bulb things underground are edible? Yeah, me neither.
Susanne: Now that you mention it, I can see it! That’s why I love the comments. Keep ‘em coming!
Diane: You can’t see them? Look closer. And a huge thank you for the award. It means a lot to me.
I hate mowing. It doesn’t take long, but just looks ugly if I don’t keep it up and trim the edges, lol
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I don’t mind it now, since the weather has been hovering around 72 degrees. Mid-summer – no fun.
I love the natural look and clover more than the boring short practically neon green lawns I’ve seen around here myself.
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Neon green, wow that’s so true. I used to live in Clearwater, FL – there was this entire neighborhood that had nothing but stones for lawns. No grass at all. Every kind of pea gravel you could think of though. Quite surreal.
I’m actually against cutting grass from an ethical viewpoint. I believe that plants feel pain. I refuse to heartlessly destroy a living, water drinking being.
At least that’s what I told the police when they were dispatched to investigate my personal jungle, which is surrounding my home!
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I’ll have to remember that if I decide to let nature take it’s course. If it doesn’t work, I’ll drop your name. That should do the trick
I like the picture. At first I thought it was a lens distort of a picture of grass or something until I viewed it larger.
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Nope, just a bunch of weeds. I can happily report that my lawn is now totally dormant. No mowing!