I planted mint in my yard for this exact reason. I hate grass lawns. However local flowers are probably better for local pollinator and bird populations, so I might add those too.
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robocall@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI don’t understand why people act like having a lawn of mint is worse than grass. Seems like it requires less maintenance.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
erev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
please do! native flora are super important, especially since large monocultures of a useless crop (grass) have become popular. if your yard is gonna be filled with plants that you aren’t using, you might as well fill it with plants that are useful to the environment
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The other day walking in the woods I saw what I assume is native grass, it look like lawn grass so I’m tempted to experiment.
binux@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Grass lawns started off as a way for pretentious rich people to flaunt how much of their land they could waste on nothing important, so it’s really not worse at all. Just another dumb trend that caught on.