Moss and clover lawn

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I grew up thinking of clover as a weed I needed to pull. How wrong I was! Clover BUILDS soil, feeds bees, is drought tolerant, can be walked on... the list goes on an on! Did you know lawns were made of clover years ago before someone decided that grass, regular watering, and weekly mowing sounded like a good idea. 🤷‍♀️ How on earth did we get sucked into that?!?When I leveled my 'badminton and soccer lawn' in 2016 I put down sod. It looked gorgeous. By the end of that summer, I hated it.

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MY BEE BAROMETER.................? Our front yard is planted with Blue Star Creeper. What started out as a memorial of sorts to my Grandmother, (she had a "blue lawn") became over the years our answer to conserving water, and not using fertilizers. The last few years it has been a "bee gauge" of sorts. We used to have to warn children not to walk or play on the "blue lawn" unless they had shoes on, because they were likely to get stung. It wasn't unusual to have several types of bees working…