Lawn Replacement
All Gardens specializes in converting
your lawn to an ecologically vibrant
garden—healthier for you, your
community, and the entire ecosystem.
Though lawns can be useful areas of play and leisure, they have become the default landscape for huge swaths of land…and much of it goes unused.
Once grass…now a productive meadow!
What’s so bad about America’s lawn addiction?
Low eco-value. Lawn grass is the single largest crop growing in the U.S., covering 40 million acres, yet it provides virtually no habitat or food for wildlife or pollinators, contributing to biodiversity loss.
Resource-Intensive. Lawn care accounts for 5% of emissions and 20% of freshwater use.
Chemicals. Large amounts of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides are used to upkeep lawns, which pollutes and cycles through the ecosystem.
Expensive. Americans spend about $5.5 billion annually on lawn care. What if that money was spent on conservation or installing eco-friendly gardens?
Low carbon storage. The shallow root system of lawn grass stores far less carbon than long-rooted native, shrubs, or trees, which all do more to slow climate change.
This lawn was replaced by drifts of perennials and wood chip pathways.
For all these reasons, we get excited about lawn replacement projects! Once the lawn is gone, the eco-friendly options are endless—consider a pollinator garden, a patio surrounded with plantings, or a woodland garden, just to name a few.
No matter the type of garden you choose as a lawn replacement, it has the capacity to look beautiful, promote ecosystem health, and create food and habitat for birds, butterflies, and insects.
Say goodbye to grass...
....and hello to this new garden!
Lawn replaced with a mix of shrubs & perennials...
....plus spring blooming bulbs.
Once a monoculture of grass, now a diversity of natives...
...the gound-view highlighting the variety of texture and form.
A mix of perennials replaces a boring backyard of grass.
Once a patchy slope of grass, the perennials, shrubs and pathway offer a major upgrade.
Lawn removal--> Meadow
Front lawn converted to meadow a few months old...
....goldenrod takes center stage in this view facing the street.
Let’s design the garden that will replace your lawn!