05/26/2026
The front yard story. Under 3 years from dead + dying to mostly native + food producing habitat!
Jess looked at me real crazy when I first unveiled my plan to remove all of the grass in our front yard, up until a month ago when it really came together.
2 rounds of mulch, weeks of ivy removal, months of saving up cardboard, and years of planning, adjusting, weeding and planting.
So far we’ve planted: 3 rhodies, 2 salal, 5 flowering currants, 3 snowberry, 3 sword fern, a lady fern, a deer fern, 2 mock orange, 2 streambank lupine, 3 big leaf lupine, 2 goldenrod, hairgrass, blue elderberry, 2 vine maple, 2 daphnes, Douglas aster, California poppy, 3 creeping Oregon grape, magnolia, meadowfoam, checkermallow, blue rush, 9 dahlias, 4 peonies, 5 kinnicknick, monkeyflower, fig, evergreen huckleberry PLUS everything in the garden beds and berry patch.
WHEW. I can’t wait to see how glorious she is in a few months, and over the next few years. And that will be an added bonus!
For the full breakdown with all my recommendations and what I’ve learned throughout this process, head to substack!
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