Low Maintenance Lawn Alternatives and Ground Covers you can Walk on

OMG! I deal with this too in Texas. Every day there is someone mowing, blowing or making some kind of lawn noise. I wish they could at least synchronize so some days would be quite.

Great intro. I just got a set of Ryobi electric tools and they work great... I SAID I JUST GOT A SET OF RYOBI ELECTRIC TOOLS AND THEY WORK GREAT !

Water hyssop grows naturally as ground cover on the low, wetter side of our property, and it attracts so many white peacock butterflies.

I have also been replacing my lawn with ground cover. We have frogfruit, sunshine mimosa, perineal peanut and creeping sage(really great for shade). Got all of ours from Wilcox nursery. I still have a problem with grass even after 12-14in of mulch underneath the ground cover. Looks good!

It’s so much fun to go back and watch these videos, and know how much your yard has evolved from then. Amazing ❤

I love how expressive you are. Love your videos

In my last house I planted perrenial peanut after removing the horrible St Augustine grass. It filled in and created a beautiful matte of yellow flowers. Mowed maybe 2-3 times per year. Nitrogen fixing, drought tolerant and looked awesome. Weeds were an occasional problem but easy to manage. Highly recommend.

I don't care what grows in my yard as long as it doesn't stab my feet.

Now that the Monarch butterfly have officially made the endangered list I think I need to do a native strip in my front yard heavy with milkweed that is host to them.

The extent of your gardening knowledge blows my mind! Are you a home gardener or do you work in the field (no pun intended) in addition to your own beautiful garden? Is your background or education in agriculture too?

I love it! I really appreciated this video as I've been looking at different ground covers around my flower beds. I have noticed that unless we use a heavy garden fabric (which I don't like using), we get a ton of weeds come through near areas where flowers are planted

Great video! Perennial peanut and frog fruit have done best for us. I wish our whole area was peanut. The mimosa doesn’t compete well with weeds, but sure is pretty. As far as mangos, if you only plan to get one tree, I suggest Glenn mango. It’s a delicious, classic flavored, fiberless mango that is productive, easy to maintain, and doesn’t have disease issues.

I like your mindset and vibe! Good info

I'm thinking of trying some perennial peanut for low traffic areas. Thanks for the tip about creeping sage, I have so many shady understory areas that need a ground cover and that looks nice. 👍

Hi! Awesome video! I’m learning and slowly replacing my lawn with frog fruit! It was completely accidental as the pollinators poop brought in the frog fruit! Lol! And I love it!

You gave some excellent choices for lawn alternatives. I have frog fruit, sunshine mimosa, beach verbena and dune sunflower as ground cover for my mango and blood orange tree. (I also have Carolina petunia but its struggling so I may place it elsewhere). I originally had mulch but it's Aussie's kryptonite. As a result it ends up with him chewing it, getting sick and not as ground cover. I do cut back the dune sunflower the most. But i love my frog fruit! I would like to have less grass but every time i plant something new in the backyard my Aussie looks at the new plantings and then at me like "Really? More? What about my grass?"

Thanks!

Yessss so happy to find your channel. I am in N. Kenwood St Pete and want to convert my lawn. Hate mowing, love flowers and plants and butterflies.. my neighbors are not happy with me however 😅

Sunshine mimosa is that having pink flower,its lovely.

Great info! Thanks!