Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives
With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you can transform your lawn into a livable garden and bring nature’s beauty into your life!
What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last!
In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet.
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I love gardening books I love gardening books, though often I find that like this one they’re long on “inspiration” (2/3 of the book) but short on help for planning. While the book does advocate for planning based on your region, site, etc., it’s less helpful than a beginner needs and more basic than an old hand needs. The author discusses some how-to’s and gives some plant recommendations for specific purposes within the no-mow yard, there’s little to help one design by region, by type of site (northern vs…
Excellent overview of moving to non bluegrass landscaping Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives is an beautiful book on creating low maintenance, non blue grass lawns or garden areas. This book would serve very well as a coffee table book for any gardeners front room, as the pictures are plentiful, clear and vivid and colorful and well captioned and beautiful.The book comes in three sections. The first section, about half the book, are descriptions and illustrations of over 50 beautiful garden spaces that once were lawns…
I really love this book and I am truly enjoying it and I have bought many books in the past but their ideas werenât reasonable or they were too expensive. This book has a lot of common sense practical examples and some beautiful pictures and it gives you a lot of ideas to let your imagination do the rest of the work. I donât usually like to spend money on books but I highly recommend you keep spending money on this book as itâs something nice to always refer to and you donât have to take it…