Comments on: rethinking the lawn, with ecological horticulturist dan wilder https://awaytogarden.com/rethinking-the-lawn-with-ecological-horticulturist-dan-wilder/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Tue, 20 May 2025 16:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: margaret https://awaytogarden.com/rethinking-the-lawn-with-ecological-horticulturist-dan-wilder/comment-page-1/#comment-1403330 Tue, 20 May 2025 16:47:37 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51775#comment-1403330 In reply to Jennifer Wilken.

Very funny, Jennifer!

]]> By: Jennifer Wilken https://awaytogarden.com/rethinking-the-lawn-with-ecological-horticulturist-dan-wilder/comment-page-1/#comment-1403329 Tue, 20 May 2025 16:09:26 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51775#comment-1403329 We killed our front lawn and established a homegrown national park, but my hubby’s man card is tied to having a lush green carpet. So I let him keep the back yard as a lawn.  I sent him a snippet of this lecture and asked him if the lawn loved him back.  Would he date a woman as ungiving and selfish as this back yard lawn?

]]> By: Jane Sherrott https://awaytogarden.com/rethinking-the-lawn-with-ecological-horticulturist-dan-wilder/comment-page-1/#comment-1380842 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:54:19 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=51775#comment-1380842 I garden in Vancouver, Canada and have replaced all our grass lawns with a mix of low, evergreen, native or naturalized ground covers like the native strawberries and prunella you mentioned. I’ve planted for a multi-textured lawn that needs no summer watering or care but is tough enough for my grandkids to run on. Plants include Veronica chamaedrys, Viola adunca, Plantago major (eco-friendly here, invasive in a few parts of WA state), Ajuga reptans, 5% clover (in our climate, it dies out after 2-3 years so at 5% level we don’t see bare spots), potentilla anserina plus our native Fragaria chiloensis and Prunella vulgaris. These are great pollinator plants blooming across all four seasons and many are the larval host plants spoken of. And all zero care so we are very happy.

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