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That's easy to say but anyone with a lawn is typically bound by local ordinances. I don't even live in a particularly nice area and I got a warning citation for some cool looking thistle I decided to let grow this year.

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Hint: you can get around most issues just by making it looking intentional. Grow a prairie in your front yard, but carefully keep a well mowed path down the middle and around the edges. This makes the whole look like a well maintained garden and will stop a lot of complaints. It won't stop everything, but it goes a long way.

Of course check what is native. Where I live prairie is native. However if you live in woods you shouldn't be planting tall grass.

> I got a warning citation for some cool looking thistle

What the hell is this dystopia really.. oh American suburbs

Could be lots of places.

Could it? Where else in the world has this sort of control? Most countries have more lawn freedom I think, you might get people disapprove but there are no controls.

Certainly in the UK and Ireland there are controls. Same here in NL too.

Lawn Controls...

..just the fact that anyone can say that phrase with a straight face...

Where in the UK? I am in the UK and I grow wildflowers all over my front lawn and no one stops me, and there are no powers to stop me.

I can imagine the USA declaring war on a country over unmowed lawns

I apologise, I was thinking of laws about long grass being a nuisance but having looked in to it more it’s better than I thought, wildflower meadow seems ok.

As a neighboring country inhabitant, now I'm curious: where in NL?

(And like the sibling comment, also: where in UK? IIRC there's a whole 'no lawns' scene in the UK)

Noxious weed probably? They can be harmful to local ecology.

More likely a native plant.

It's native. Just considered "icky".

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