Hardi hates to mow but thinks he must, so he does.

I tell him our yard is not lawn-type grass but tough pasture-grass trying to grow natural, because-- IT IS.

Since neither of us wants to put the foot down, we go around and around on this-- he trying to make a suburbia-acceptable yard in the middle of a cow farm, and me wanting the wild look.

We end up somewhere in between.

I would prefer to have the yard in crown vetch, and mow walkpaths thru it to the sitting corners.... I may transplant some and mark it with no-mow flags to see if it gets a start. I know once it does-- it will take over, heh heh heh, while he's out of town some summer week.

And if he sees it he will like it. That or phlox. Or both. Both are rampant in these parts, and he loves them both-- so why not in our yard?

~Susan