I find I am spending about 30-60 minutes every morning weeding. Each morning, I pick a section of the yard and start. I carry my newspaper bag with me. A lot of bending over! The grasses seem especially stubborn. One morning, 3 months after Phase 1 was planted, and after an hour of weeding, I was talking to one neighbor when someone she knew drove up in a golf cart. He exclaimed “Here’s the woman in charge who I can ask about what’s going on here”. So I told him I replaced all the grass with Frog Fruit – he didn’t think he’d ever seen frog fruit before, although it is in many public neighborhood places like Postal Pick-up areas and median strips. He asked if I had to go through the ARC. I replied I hired a professional landscaper for the design and got ARC approval. The ARC's only stipulation / exception was that the plants (other than ground cover) had to be planted 3 feet from the property line. I told him that within a year I would be only watering as needed. He mentioned it was a different look from the usual rocks and stone landscaping and finished with “it shows imagination!” That put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.
The front yard just 3 months after planting in July – the frog fruit has filled in nicely
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