Wildlife Refuge-Garden for Life

     There is a new movement to slowly replace lawns with rain gardens which are created to hold moisture and use native plants.   I have a 1/4 acre of grass lawn which I mow with a 24 Volt electric that takes me about an hour and a half or two depending on bee and snake warnings.    WANTED - bees and snakes alive!    Polllinators and Slug eaters, my own Transformers.    The rest of our land is returning to cultivated fruit trees and wild flowers, berries, vegetable garden and on the actually almost untouched property, sweet fern, mountain laurel, sheep laurel, yucca, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and many spontaneous sassafrass trees.    The crown vetch, an invasive, is everywhere.   Ashamed to say I actually planted some, so don't always believe that your garden center is not in it for a profit.   Managed to tame it a bit so it adds to our very hard working Grey Gardens look.   My brother calls it old hippie.