Ember

I have 6 garden beds: 2 front 2 back 1 each side. North is mostly a native shade bed, East are 2 front gardens, 1 is red natives and perennials, the other is purple natives and perennials. South is an echinacea bed. West is 2 beds, both are mixed perennials. I have many native shrubs and a kousa dogwood, amelanchier, two quercus prinoides chinquapin, and a yellow buckeye, and mulberry, and Stella cherry. I enjoy it all. what bugs me is my lawn. On my ‘24 season to do list is to eliminate the front lawn on 1 side, then the second side next year. I live in an urban area so birds are starlings, English sparrows, pigeons, mourning doves, juncos, catbirds, cardinals, song sparrow, white throated sparrow, Carolina wren, and last season a successful bluebird couple that fledged 4. They are here again, I hope they stay and nest.