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lawns and garden "police"

Hah -- it gets worse. I had a friend who tried that in Mountain View. About
the time the  "sticks" appeared, the neighbors called the fire department
and get her cited for fire hazard weeds in her front yard.

She's now gotten rid of the "meadow" approach and replaced it with lots of
California native shrubs -- low ones and tall ones -- the neighbors still
complain -- especially when everthing starts looking pretty brown in
August, but they can't do anything officially.  It's really a great street
to see actually -- one drives along and sees all these California ranch
type houses with their bright green, turf lawns, full of impatiens and
yellow marigolds.  Right in the middle of it is a house whose front is
almost obliterated from view by the shrubs and grasses -- and 6 foot high
mounds of Eriogonum giganteum (St Catherine's Lace).  It makes quite a
statement!

Carol

----- snip

And it was absolutely beautiful for several months. However ....
>just as the rains end, so does the wildflower bloom, and we ended up
>with two front yards full of dead sticks.  It was then that I attempted
>to explain to my neighbor what a mediterranean climate was, and that we
>had just experienced the effects of that type of climate on wildflowers.
>All very natural, you know ....


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