As she often does, naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson—perhaps known better to some of you as the Humane Gardener after the title of her first book—caught my attention the other day.
“My yard isn’t overgrown and neither is yours,” Nancy wrote in a post on Instagram. What she went on to say is that words like overgrown are the kind that are often applied negatively to landscapes that don’t fit the manicured model, the one dominated by the mindset of the Great American Lawn.
But Nancy Lawson takes exception countering with the thought that most landscapes are in fact undergrown, as in lacking diversity and life.
Naturalist Nancy Lawson is author of “The Humane Gardener,” and then also of the book “Wildscape.” When she and her husband bought their Maryland home almost 25 years ago, it was anything but a wildscape. And she vividly remembers that the 2.23 acres featured, in her words, “almost 2 acres of mowed turf and a little tiny, sickly rose bush.”
Not anymore.
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I have struggled to understand why people buy/rent homes with HOAs, sign that they agree to abide to the covenants and then want to break them. In this case, if you chose an HOA neighborhood, you are choosing to impose rules on your neighborhood to control how they behave and how their property looks because that is what you want for the area in which you live.
If you do not want this for yourself and want to have the freedom to garden how you want, DO NOT buy a home in an HOA neighborhood. While you and I do not want the sterile, cookie cutter look, some people do. It is their right to have that if they choose. This is the basis for an HOA imo.
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