freedom lawn

n. residential land permitted to or designed to contain a variety of plants other than manicured grass, especially when containing plant life that occurs without cultivation, chemicals, or cutting. Subjects: English, Environment

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Citations: 1993 Peter Pringle @ U.S. Independent (London, England) (June 21) “Suburbia spurns the lawn police”: These figures are published in a new book, Redesigning the American Lawn, by three concerned environmentalists from Yale Univeristy, Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori and Gordon Geballe. They propose “freedom lawns,” allowing natural and unrestricted growth of grasses, clover, wild flowers and other broad-leafed plants that lawn-obsessed people regard as weeds. 1999 Thomas G. Barnes Gardening for the Birds (Feb. 1) p. 16: Sherri Evans…recommends planting “prairie patches and woodland niches” in addition to perennialground covers to create a “freedom lawn"—a new landscape notion that is more environmentally friendly and views the lawn as a green space in an interconnected ecological system. 2005 Laura Wexler Charlotte Observer (N.C.) (Apr. 24) “Many denizens roam the backyard jungle”: She is against cultivating a green shag rug through the aid of chemicals, advocating instead something the lawn industry calls a Freedom Lawn: “a delicately balanced mixture of whatever can grow in any particular spot and doesn’t mind getting whacked by the mower every couple of weeks.”

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