If the alternative is some more appropriate local plant or plants, then great. If the alternative is concrete or astroturf, please don't. The trend of people p

If the alternative is some more appropriate local plant or plants, then great. If the alternative is concrete or astroturf, please don't. The trend of people paving over their front gardens for car parking is causing a lot of flooding problems in the UK (because water runs straight off concrete, and isn't absorbed). It also makes the general environment much less pleasant and human if everything surrounding roads is paved as far as the eye can see, rather than filled with gardens, whether they're wild or highly tended. You end up with these grim concrete tunnels of development where no one wants to spend their time. That in turn damages pedestrian culture, and the health and social benefits which go with it.