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[quote=Anonymous]OP I will try to answer your question on the face of it. Many people do not love to maintain their yards, and many have tried to make it easier. If you have a sunny yard, the easiest thing by far is grass. It needs to be mowed in the summer and through out the fall. The lawn mower cuts down the weeds. It is very difficult to maintain a green lawn without chemicals. It can be done, but it is even more work. Also in MoCo and Fairfax, there are county ordnances about not mowing a front yard.
If you have tress, there is no getting around the leaves. If you have a wooded area, you can let it be woods and blow the leaves back there -- but that presumes you have woods, which most people do not.
If you maintain mulch around the trees and "garden" there, remember to put black lawn paper under the mulch to prevent weeds. You can make the mulch bed pretty big -- just remember the weed proof paper. Otherwise you will be pulling weeds from there -- weeds/weeding is the enemy of large mulch beds. Also leaves, which need to be removed. You can also put stones/gravel around over top of the garden paper. That is a look that most people don't love, but you might be able to do it.
You can plant ever greens and have a large mulch area around that. Good luck.[/quote]

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