Definitely a Team No Lawn Member -
April 30, 2011 - that was the day that the last bit of lawn at my house was removed. All the grass was gone from the backyard 15 years ago when the swimming pool and basketball court was put in. Started my "Lawn no more" project on my front yard on April 2010 because I didn't see any value in a lawn - especially since I have no young kids that wants to run around on the grass anymore. If I am going to water something, it has to give back either food or beauty. And, I wanted to cut way back on the amount of landscape watering - and what is the point in growing something just to mow it back week after week? Since I was doing this one square foot at a time, I allotted myself three year to do this project. Once I got started, I decided to go full speed and got rid of all my lawn in 14 months. I divided up my front lawn area into three sections, and worked on one section at a time. I posted these photos recently on another thread, but since it fits so well in this theme, I am re-posting this series of photos from section 1 of my yard.
August 2009 - the way it was..............September 2010 - phase 1 is well on it's way...............September 2011 - not a speck of lawn here.
