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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I love gardens of all kinds, including tidy lawns and wild cottage gardens.

You’re not going to win this with an HOA. It’s not the native vs non native, but [b]people who want to live in an HOA neighborhood aren’t going to tolerate plants in any state of decline or dormancy[/b], which will make it hard to have an effective native perennial garden. And they’re going to be mad if your mowed lawn isn’t monoculture. Like, MAD. People who are into monoculture lawns get big time mad. Why would you want to be in a quasi-governmental situation with those people where you have to mutually negotiate rules for yards? It’s a nightmare. It’s worth finding a house without an HOA.

My mother, who is lovely and likes flowers, asked me what was wrong with my hellebores that made the leaves grow early. She literally didn’t know they have last seasons’ leaves when they bloom. She thought the flowers grew right out of the ground, because that is the only way she’s ever seen them. It’s like not knowing corgies have long tails. [/quote]

Burke Centre PP. This doesn't really sound familiar to me for the neighborhoods around Burke, West Springfield, Annandale, (old) Fairfax (e.g. by GMU). I've lived and visited in some places that were like that and they were almost always entire neighborhoods of newer builds in outer-ring suburban areas, or a neighborhood attached to a golf course. In this part of NOVA, I feel like most people buy houses IN SPITE of a HOA, not because of it. I mean, there are definitely some retirees around Burke who love their lawns and spend an enormous amount of time and/or money maintaining them, but if the HOA doesn't care about lawns filled with clover and dandelions, they really can't do much about it.

Burke Centre Conservancy actually facilitates ordering and distributing free native shrubs and trees through the Fairfax ReLeaf non-profit every year, and the Conservancy is a big reason why Burke hasn't been built up the way other areas around here have. For a really long time they required us to get permission to cut down a tree because they're trying to maintain the tree canopy. They really don't care about having everyone's lawn look like a TruGreen commercial. But this is why OP's doing the research because every HOA is different.[/quote]

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