[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Jazuela

Is a combination of pebble walkways, river rock patches, and maybe a decorative boulder or two, decorative or green non-grass ground cover and small, well-placed shrubs/bushes allowed, as a replacement for all grass? I'm not asking about courtyard villas. I'm asking about the rest of TV. I really don't want to waste water, pesticides, herbacides, and various other expensive and planet-killing methods on grass that no one can set a blanket down on for a picnic, or play the 9th hole, or set up a volleyball net. If the only criteria I need to follow is that it look green and grassy, I'd feel better ripping the whole thing up and setting down astroturf. It'd serve the exact same function - which is to be green, and flat-ish.

I'm also not asking about an "all-rock" lawn.

I don't think so, but you yourself will have to ask the Architectural Review Committee. Don't worry about water, the retention ponds are catch basins for rain and are used to water our lawns south of 466. I hope that astro turf is not allowed. Think of all the oxygen a lawn converts from carbon dioxide. Well technically photosynthesis converts water to oxygen but grass is good for the earth. Plants Don’t Convert CO2 into O2 – How Plants Work