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Natural yard full of native species > gross manicured yard
i hate insects tho?
Clip dragonfly models to wire rods. Scares the ever living crap out of anything that flies. https://www.getyourbug.com/
That's fair, but you don't gotta invite them in. And I will remind you that "outside" is kind of their domain, not ours 😉
All that said though, a rock or sand yard is still vastly better than a manicured lawn which serves basically no purpose other than to take in resources (mostly water) with no real output. Hell, even if you paved over your lawn with one big slab of concrete that would still probably be ecologically better than the waste involved in maintaining a manicured grass lawn!
Slabbing is much worse, holds heat and cold and prevent groundwater absorption. Crushed lava rock over sand and gravel would be a good idea though, nice and solid to walk on but drains out no problem.
Listen to this person, not to me, as it sounds like they actually know what they're talking about 👍
I gotta disagree there. My yard even when mowed is a haven for all sortsa critters. Lizards, squirrels, and birds prance around by day, and at night you can find hundreds of varying spiders and wasps hunting smaller insects. Rocks might afford some of that but just about nothing would be happy with plain sand backyard. Then again, I live in an area with lots of rain and no shortage on water.
I try to mow pretty high and I let it grow for a few weeks between, but unfortunately I cant just leave it be due to my hoa.
Have you tried aging past 8 years old?
That's great if you don't have ticks, snakes, ants, termites, and mice.
See my reply to the other commenter