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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
Replace it with something that is designed for the local soil and climate and needs minimal attention, such as certain types of ground cover. Check with the Florida Native Plant Society.
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The wise sayng-THE RIGHT PLANT IN THE RIGHT PLACE always applies.
What we insist of growing-neat, close cut lawn, kept inside of perfect lines with perfectly trimmed bushes in perfectly laid out groups, NEVER EXISTS OR HAS EXISTED IN NATURE.
Most issues in this thread, and others is about a about a lawn-understood by most to mean GRASS. There is nothing natural about the lawn we seek. You are fighting nature and that means WORK. Other ground covers do exist and used correctly are very attactive. Unfortunately,
you cannot walk on most if not all of them. While they are native, the do not grow NATURALLY as we INSIST on growing them. Not the same plants, we call weeds, need to be removed. Chemicals that will kill what we havd now decided to call weeds will liklely also kill what we are calling native plants. So to force what is NOT NATURAL, NOT REALLY NATIVE CONDITIONS, you need to pull WEEDS by hand.
Depending on how YOU look at it. An endless battle or an endless adventure.