How many states have those laws? The wiki article only cites two, Florida and Arizona. I’m pretty sure this is not a widespread thing yet.
Xeriscaping is very popular in the southwest, so I doubt any HOA in New Mexico would object to a yard with colored gravel, yucca, and cactus. In fact, that’s what pretty much every new development I’ve seen in the past 10 years has included. My point was that there are plenty of plants that look nice that aren’t weeds, that HOAs wouldn’t and/or can’t object to.
Sorry for the hijack.
I’m living in Colorado right now, the birthplace of xeriscaping. It’s encouraged. It’s not the same thing as out of control weeds.
I would just bet that they were one of these.
http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/3103/1
I had some in my garden, once. And yep, there was a lavender-color one, and yep, they were marvelously fragrant.
I’m more than aware of that. I’m saying that the typical “all-for-lawn and lawn-for-all” neighbors might not know that.
Actually, nobody cares about weeds or prairie-style patches out here, except the picky guy across the road, and everybody talks about him. Picky Guy doesn’t even talk to me; another neighbor says Picky Guy thinks I’m scary, which I find hilarious*. Honestly, truly, my neighbor was acting out of kindness, not commenting on my choice of landscaping. I was only dismayed, not angry with him. I didn’t want to say anything to anybody around here, because he’d feel bad about the whole goofy thing. In ten years, when the replacements are eight feet tall, I might mention it to him as a funny thing that happened in the past.
I mean, for instance, here you can see about 25-30% of the driveway he plows when it snows. In fact, where the drive starts to curve is where the forsythia were. You can’t see them in the photo, and neither could he in person. I had to wade into the tall grass to find them, and I knew where they were. Here’s in back of my house this past spring; you can see that any kind of vegetation is fine. By the way, he sold me the firewood in the photo (plus a lot more elsewhere) at the neighbor discount price; plus when he has firewood that “won’t sell 'cause it isn’t pretty”, I’m invited to help myself to a pickup load whenever I want. Every blackberry cane on my property came from him or is a descendent of one of them. Did I tell you about the time he rebuilt my lawn mower for $12.50, and I had to argue with him to get him to take $15? (Ha, that was the time he weighed the lawn mower…one of the things that convinced him I’m nuts.)
Heck, the whole thing started when he was haying the field south of me, which belongs to another neighbor, a widow. And some other neighbors buy the baled hay for their horses, so it ends up being him, his grandson, the purchasing neighbor, his son, and me all out there loading the bales out and having a good old dirty, sweaty afternoon.
*Picky Guy might have me confused with Meth Cooker Dude, who used to live next door. Or not.
Ha! I like that.
3acres, don’t look now but I think he mowed down your mailbox, too. :eek:
For no particular reason, heres’ a nice photo of hubby baling hay. Disclaimer: unfortunately, that is neither our tractor nor our baler.
