Jeff Gates writes in response to my comments about trying to de-grass our front lawn:

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of LA and now reside in an almost forest of trees in the burbs of DC. It takes me a couple of hours to mow my lawn (if you could call it that since we don’t get a lot of sunlight in the summer). I wanted to leave a “rectangle” of grass unmowed for the entire season to see what it would look like and how much it would grow but my wife wasn’t too sure about my “public art piece.” Oh, and I thought the definition of a “weed” was simply an unwanted plant (I always liked that). What I think is a weed, someone else could think is a beautiful flower (I know my children LOVE dandelions).

I really like the idea. Giving corners to wildness. Maybe next year.

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