I'm looking into using the state of Texas penal code protecting drought-resistant landscaping to overcome the HOA and convert my lawn. I noticed I already have something interesting here.
by EN344
I'm looking into using the state of Texas penal code protecting drought-resistant landscaping to overcome the HOA and convert my lawn. I noticed I already have something interesting here.
by EN344
22 Comments
Clover
Check out frog fruit too. Great Texas native
clover flower
clover and what looks like crab grass. neither are native, though the crab grass is gonna be a bigger pain to deal with if you plan on converting the lawn (we went full scorched earth on ours to convert sections to native plants, and a year later there’s still some peeking through đ)
edit: i agree w the other commenters that’s def st augustine grass! we don’t have any where i am so I wasn’t familiar with it
Wish I had a yard full of that!!
đ§ have you never seen a clover fam
My clovers never flower, I’m a bit jealous.
Dutch white clover. I love them! Not native to US but still great for pollinators. I prefer it over grass
Thank you for challenging idotic ordinances!!
Your reward is blooming clover and grateful bees.
Hereâs a tool I like for identifying plants.Â
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plantnet/id600547573
Great source for Texas native plant seeds. Seedsource.com
Non-native Trifolium repens. You don’t need it to droughtproof your lawn, not that lawns of anything seem to be a good idea in “Texas”. But, Phyla nodiflora **is** native to “Texas”, **is** drought tolerant, does have a track record of being used as an alternative “lawn” plant, and will probably do more for native pollinators. Just don’t forget to diversify your garden with plantings of other native plants from other families.
Clover is amazing and is really good for the soil. It is also a great source of food for the wild animals (and occasional pet).
Like others said, the clover isnât native, but you can mix in some native ground coverage flowers (I would look up your growing zone and what plants are native and work well in your area), and youâll have a yard that helps a variety of pollinators, and itâll look pretty when itâs all blooming
Clover. Keep it.
Neighbors had a BEAUTIFUL clover yard, yellow clover specifically. They mowed it down and killed it. Not their yards full of a variety of ugly hard to remove weeds
I always thought the flowers were honeysuckle and you could eat them. Always tasted like grass.
Leprechaun bait.
Bee food
It’s white clover. I believe it is native to England, which means it’s usefulness is a debatable subject in the US. I live in Cincinnati and Running Buffalo clover is what is native for me. However, it is an endangered species and not readily available for the general public. I have a large swath of lawn along a path that white clover has taken over and I haven’t mowed it in several months. I know it’s not native, but it’s less grass to cut and I didn’t plant it.
My chickens eat it and so do the deer
Clover. My daughter used to eat it to make herself fart. Lol
It’s clover, those are the flowers clover produces
beautiful clover, sure it provides no real benefit to the local flora and fauna except to the generalist bees while crowding out native vegetation through fast spreading mats, but theyâre âniTroGEn fiXeRSâ so surely this is great for the environment when most native flora donât need a surplus of nitrogen.