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          Native plants conducive to your ecoregion. Kill your lawn isn’t an end, it is a beginning to a more sustainable, ecologically beneficial mindset. Takes much much less time to maintain, looks gorgeous, and you’ll see birds, butterflies, moths, bees, frogs, toads, etc that you’ve never seen before. When you work with nature instead of against it, it just clicks.

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              There is more than native grasses. Ticks are a result of mismanaged habitat, I don’t have any in my yard despite them being around. I have dogs, no fleas ever either. If you don’t want to do it, fair. But those aren’t legit reasons.

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                  I recommend talking to native landscapers in your region and university extension offices in your state. They have a wealth of knowledge and can help you get going. There are shade loving and shade tolerant native plants. Just because 99% of people do it, doesn’t mean it works best.