It's really low maintenance I think that depends on your frame of reference. Sure in comparison with maintaining a forest the way you describe it's low (though

It's really low maintenance I think that depends on your frame of reference. Sure in comparison with maintaining a forest the way you describe it's low (though note that there's always the option of not maintaining a forest at all, except for paths through it). But compared to maintaining a meadow (even mown piecewise to strive for max biodiversity) where you'd mow max 2 times a year, it's rather high. It's a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn Depends. I don't consider mowing a piece of grass 2 times a year a lot harder than doing all of it every 2 weeks, on the contrary. You need the correct tool for the job though. when the flowers all die That doesn't have to be like that, e.g. in my Western-European climate that is only so in the middle of winter; for the rest my grassland has flowering species about 9 months a year. Does require some insight into ecology of grasslands to get such situation though. What you talk about is typically what one gets when not mowing 'correctly'. I.e. wrong time of year, or too much or too little, or not removing the vegetation after mowing it, etc. that creates a weird erosion pattern Can you explain that? I'm pretty sure I've seen studies where old grasslands are better for erosion than short lawns.