Probable Last Update on Crazy Lady Situation

First, I just wanted to put in a plug for pocket prairies and why this can be superior to a traditional garden. If you do a dense planting of native plants, weeds will struggle to compete, and it’s actually the environment that many of these plants are adapted to. Many will flop over if they are all alone. This is also more beneficial for pollinators and other creatures because the end result is more flowers and species of plants than you would have otherwise. In the spirit of ‘NoLawn’, this is the easiest way to accomplish no lawn. Make it prairie! I know countless prairies that look incredible with just removal of cedar trees and periodic disturbance, and you can have that piece of nature in your own front yard. It’s absolutely worth it, but, the city might come for you… ACTUAL UPDATE: Basically, the Superintendent of Code Enforcement came out and we had a conversation about what I’m doing and why. They were very familiar with people like me, and he mainly just wanted me out of their hair (I think at least). So, they gave me a deal: -The hellstrip needs to stay under 12” in height. -I have to keep a 20” mulched area on the front of my side of the sidewalk. -rocks need to be continuous. -need a mulched strip on one side of the driveway. -No mulched strips needed on crazy lady side, just continuous rock border -No mulched strips needed on nice neighbor side, just continuous rock. -I have 3 entire months to make this happen -If code enforcement comes for me, if I did as he described, give him a call. My other option was to lose like 60% of it based on the supervisors stance. I’d call it a win, if nothing else perhaps it could be considered necessary civil disobedience. Sometimes you just have to cause noise to get something reasonable. Maybe next time I buy a house it’ll not be in a city. Anyways, hopefully that’s it ❀ The seed mix I used was specific to my region, from https://seedsource.com.