Used to be lawn.

Hello all, I posted this on another no lawn sub but couldn't work the cross post.

Anyway, this is what used to be the front lawn when I bought my house here in subtropical Australia.

I started with a hedge for privacy, wind control and moisture retention.

Then a canopy of tall local shade trees over a sub canopy selection of subtropical fruit trees. A few beds featuring shade plants and an artificial pond in the middle. Fish for mosquito control.

We now have a big selection of self reintroduced native animals, from marsupials (possums and the odd koala, no really), placental mammals (fruitbats for the fruit) birds, reptiles, amphibians (frogs) various arthropods.

It's shady, cool, private and diverse.