> living in the dry western U.S., it's not that great Over the last four or five years, my wife & I have killed 75% of our 1 acre Eastern US lawn and replaced

> living in the dry western U.S., it's not that great Over the last four or five years, my wife & I have killed 75% of our 1 acre Eastern US lawn and replaced it with native trees and plants. I have lovely grasses and flowers (asters, Susans, coneflowers and phlox) in the front, native trees and undergrowth towards the back, and a quarter acre or so of plain old lawn which we're planning to introduce clover into. We've got trees coming in nicely and starting to give shade, butterflies fluttering around the flowers, a vegetable garden in the corner, and 75% less lawn to worry about mowing. I wouldn't give it up for anything.