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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gardens are a lot of work. I’ve seen people get in over their head by starting too big, too fast. They are unable to maintain, use the wrong placement and it becomes overgrown and unmanageable.

You need to start small, see how things develop and slowly expand. This will take YEARS.

There’s an unsightly front lawn garden in my neighborhood because the home owner thought it was enough to just throw natives on the front lawn. No thought was given to the full size of the plant at maturity and it was not well thought out. Now a new homeowner is struggling with it and has done nothing to correct the placement issue.

A front lawn garden can be beautiful. Check out Lucinda Hutson’s Texas garden. Planning and continued maintenance is key. Don’t be fooled into thinking a native garden will be set it and forget it.[/quote]

OP here. I ripped out grass and converted my (rowhouse) front yard to perennials about 5 years ago. I'm not completely new to this or the work it takes, though not by any means super experienced. I have discovered I love gardening, find it incredibly therapeutic, and have been learning more as I go. I don't always know what I'm doing, but I've learned and researched enough to know which perennials grow big vs small and seem to work well together, what I need to do to care for them seasonally, etc. Neighbors are frequently commenting on our front yard flowers when they pass by.

I don't expect to do convert everything all at once, but I do want a fence border of native flowers and hedges around my back yard. In the front, I'll probably lean toward a grass-clover mix as I read about it; at a minimum, I will not use pesticides to maintain a golf course yard and will let clover reign free (mowing of course).

However, where I can sensibly reduce lawn with garden, I will, especially in the backyard (not all, I have kids, we want some playspace for them).

It literally brings me so much joy to see a bee or a butterfly enjoying flowers in my yard. I guess I'm kinda crazy, but it is what it is.[/quote]

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