Meadow yard landscape

Water restrictions and environmental concerns have caused many homeowners to ditch their traditional grass lawns and opt for more eco-friendly options. Replace your lawn with a native plant garden, add beds & borders, permeable hardscape, and other no-mow alternatives.

A tapestry of resilient native species is the foundation of this design approach. Learn more about ecological gardening here.

This space proves that more structure leads to greater appeal. See how an award-winning landscape designer created a stylized meadow garden.

A meadow garden is literally what is it: a garden with plants that are native for the area. Here are ideas to design one.

Meadows attract pollinators and other wildlife and, from an ecological standpoint, meadows are critical. As gardeners, creating a meadow is something that we can do tangibly to make a difference in the environment. Learn how you can turn your lawn into a meadow and increase biodiversity in your landscape.

Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes.

Have you considered changing your lawn into a wildflower meadow? Once established the wildflower area will be a great attraction to bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects as well as easier to maintain than a traditional lawn. For success with a wildflower meadow it is important to consider the following: When a lawn is sown it is generally at about 40 grams to the square metre. A meadow is sown at about 4 grams, which is 10% of the above rate. Meadow mixtures are a mixture of…

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Dream up a meadow garden in your own backyard with these top planting and design tips.

Are you tired of constantly mowing your lawn? If so, then check out these no-mow lawn alternatives that can spruce up your yard with minimal to no effort!

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How to Plant Native Plants in Natural Layers: Grow native plants in natural layers to create a meadow garden.

Create your meadow garden with exclusive design tips, lessons, and inspiration from the nation's top designers.

You should consider changing, or we should say Wildscaping, your space into a lovely wildflower meadow filled with vibrant and versatile blooms

There are no shortcuts to creating a meadow—but if you follow James Hitchmough's guidelines you can create your own naturalistic landscape. Here's how.