You can always put a creeping thyme in the bare patches. That way when you step on it the herbal scent will release. Magic. Also white silvery plants will appear to glow in the moonlight for a nighttime whimsical feel.
Half my lawn is mountain thyme, it smells very nice when you walk on it. The other half used to be a clover lawn until an unexpected drought last October where I live killed it. Where I live normally October is rainy season so I already put away my hose and thought the clover could survive until the rains start. Turned out they couldn't survive 3 weeks without water because that's how long the drought ended up lasting
For people who want to do this, please research native clover species for YOUR area! Remember to think of your environment and what benefits the wildlife around you.
Cute! I'm a huge fan of alternatives, and hobbits. Dutch Clover tends to really stress here in the heat...and of course goes completely dormant in winter. In a sunny spot, I've used various low growing thymes. It smells good and takes being stepped on some. It can bloom in white, pinks, and reds. In more shade, I love native blue violets. They bloom in late spring and mound beautifully with their heart shaped dark green leaves. Recovers well from light traffic, I use them with stepping stones. No mow for either. Benefit: violets are a host plant for smaller butterfly species to overwinter. Thymes discourages pests and feeds bees.
This year, golden creeping jenny wandered its way into the violet stepping stone area. It's such a beautiful, non competitive ground cover! Recommend!!!
@@VxiceheartxV violets grow almost everywhere in the states. mine just came up and I transplanted to where I wanted them. I've seen them in most people's shady yards or in flower beds, but people think of them as weeds and pull or spray them. Crazy! I think you can buy seed at places like Prairie Moon Nursery, too.
What I'm curious about are the bugs because where I live we have clover that grows widely but it's a breading ground for ants and spiders. I'd like grass I can walk on without shoes and not fear being attacked by spiders and ants lol
Another commenter mentioned it as a joke but you genuinely can use astroturf. You can choose a small portion of your yard that you’d like to use as a sitting/dining/chilling area and use a patch of astroturf to make it barefoot friendly. Just because it’s plastic doesn’t mean it’s evil! If you do try it I’d recommend stones or wood slats to divide it from the rest of the yard, since it will always be green.
@@dawert2667 I live in az. Astroturf is not barefoot approved in the summers. 🤣🤣 currently we have just rock and I hate it. So I went and bought a 8x10 thing of astroturf for me to pretend I have grass. 🤣🤣🤣
@@jlcollins7673if you walk on your lawn and there's bees living there you will most likely step on them at some point. It's like ground wasps, if you step on their home they don't like it.
I wish people would look into native ground covering in their area. They naturally do well in their native environment and are great for the ecosystem overall (not just the bees which people always focus on).
Be advised that dog poop is very difficult to locate and clean up in clover. Do not recommend if you have a dog and have kids who want to play on the yard.
Most likely not since it's a special dwarf clover but it doesn't necessarily matter with clover because once they flower it attracts many different pollinators
Does anyone know if this grows back in the spring/survive the winter? I would love to do this, but I live in Canada, so half of the year is winter and very snowy and cold!
My backyard is mixed with clovers and regular lawn. It's more lush-look here in TX especially in summer. Less water required, more green and almost zero weeds ever since...
Thank you so much!!!! I’ve been looking for this comment! Do you happen to know if all varieties are toxic? I’ve seen on a Redditor’s post that red clover is definitely a no-go, but was unsure about white clover. Any more info would be appreciated!!!
Love the look, just one thing- if you are in America and that is white clover, that is just as environmentally harmful as non-native grass. Try to plant some native landscaping (flower garden, perhaps bushes) to help the native animals
Lover lawns look nice until your get a bunch of rain and it turns into an ugly muddy mess. Something to consider before jumping on the Clover Lawn bandwagon.
The patches of clover in my yard stay green during droughts, whereas the grass dies and turns brown. Even when my lawn is green, the patches of clover are the greenest. I love it and will be converting my whole yard to clover.
I want to see it in the spring! Do you get snow? Does it become a mud pit between snow and summer? Of course it looks gorgeous in summer… will it turn purple in the fall. I can’t wait to see!!! ❤
Such a great idea! Grass lawn is such a waste of water and space when you could have beautiful plants and pollinator friendly flowers to provide natural food and habitat for native critters. Bringing so much life into your garden. Clover has lovely flowers and the pollinators love it! To the negative commenter below, a plant is only a weed if it’s growing where it’s not wanted. What some people call weeds, others call wildflowers or meadow flowers and some are even medicinal!
Clover isnt a native plant though, it wont help "native wildlife" 😂 and she mixed it with bermuda grass which is an invasive weed that takes over EVERYTHING.
@@mjbutnotmaryjane Lawn grasses aren't native either, so compared to those this is a step in the right direction as this is at least beneficial for local pollinators.
Since my husband passed away my grass doesn't get cut so often. I now have patches of flowering clicer, daisies, buttercups and "cabbage weed" (greenspreading plant with tiny yellow flowers. My garden is full of bees and 🐞.
I saw another family that did this. I did notice there is a big shift towards trying local groundcover for the diverse wildlife. Its fascinating how many options there actually are available. There are some forraging pages that go in depth. I can barely grow a stick but the plants that i have that were born and bred here with me live their own lives 😂
How well does this treat folks with bad allergies?? I keep thinking about trying it out! but my hubby has VERYYYY bad pollen allergies, and we were worried about the flowers blooming!
Wish we could do micro clover here. Too expensive and vulnerable to blight in my area. Love our patches of white clover tho. Wish it would take over bigger areas.
In Ireland as pretty as clover can be and how helpful it is for the soil and the pollinators this is considered an invasive weed to most peoples lawns, you will soon find your neighbours will have clover creeping up in their gardens as it will spread like a weed does. fun fact though weed killers have little effect on clover which makes it pretty hard to remove once it’s taken over your lawn, to remove it you need to remove your entire lawn in spring, reseed grass and start again and hope and pray that doesn’t come back like wildfire in summer because it generally does. I personally don’t have children, or dogs or an allergy to pollinators, so I don’t mind the clover in my garden however, if you want to use your garden come summer and you do have one of those 3 mentioned then you will not be able to atleast until the flowers are gone.
This looks so cute! Another bonus is that clovers are perfectly edible so if you have small kids you don't need to worry about them eating them and getting sick although some animals like rabbits for example can experience negative effects so be careful about that But yeah as another commenter said wear shoes cause bugs love clovers and you probably want to avoid stepping on a bumblebee or something
@@melwaters7717 Yeah they're bad for cats It's not like super severe, they'll be fine if they only eat a little one time but if they eat it too much or eat it often over an extended period of time they will get sick So be careful
So many questions asking about bugs, snakes, spiders, and more. 🤭 They're in San Diego, which is west coast, southern California. There aren't a lot of snakes, and if there are, they're harmless. Same with spiders. In my experience, the west coast has a lot fewer bugs and creepy crawlies than other parts of the US. We just don't have things like no see ums, or biting gnats, or ticks unless you're in the woods maybe, but even then I've literally never seen one in person lol I'm very interested in trying a clover/wildflower lawn, so watching the progress here is awesome!
I suppose that would depend on how close you are to trails. I'm in SoCal and there certainly are rattlesnakes, and such, here__as well as black widows, brown recluse, and, if it's damp, mosquitoes! Depending on the type of soil, red fire ants, too! Most definitely, mice, rats, and cockroaches. 😛 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
This is great!!! Love the glover 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💚💚💚💚💚 Suggestion: Add edges to the sides of the path...either natural stones or roughly cut stones/ edging stones. It could either follow the curv of the round stones or just be straight on the edges. And maybe have some natural stones making shapes. But the path needs definement on the edges to really draw the eye for a journey. Right now the lower part of the fence and the house looks not symmetrical and that beautiful whimpsical feel of the round stones is somewhat lost. But I absolutely love what you are up to!!! 🥰
Love it! Just be careful in winter because it will not be there in the winter and you'll have a muddy mess. A way to avoid this is to also seed grass in so it can reinforce the clover in the winter months.
please be careful in warmer months. unless you're going to cut the blooms off once a week you'll have to be extremely mindful of wasps and bees in the clover blooms. they absolutely love them and it seems you know that but accidentally getting stung happens constantly
It’s much healthier and stronger if you add clover seed to your existing sod structure. Giving the clovers a stronger base, you won’t have to worry about crushing clovers, and staining clothes as much. Clovers also have a much higher chance of reseeding in existing sod. You won’t have to reseed when they die.
Warnings to yall. First, just using clover youll have mud during winter and if you have pets youll be seeding every spring. Also, clover is technically a weed. So when you get typical weeds youll have to hand pick them cause chemicals typically used on lawns will kill clover as well. Clover attracts spiders. Clover is not for high traffic lawns or pathways. I used clover and regretted it for lawn. However, it is awesom for areas you wouldnt typically lawn. Below inaccecible retaining walls and rockbeds and under trees where grass will typically die. Clover also grows well in high acidic soil.
A huge portion of my lawn is clovers. 2 of my kids are terrified to go barefoot in it because it attracts so many bees!!! I kinda just watch my step but definitely been stung numerous times.. We do find lots of 4 leaf clovers though.
This is much better than replacing nature with smelly plastic grass carpet, or having a yard filled with hot rocks that make the entire street 10x hotter. 😒 If grass isn't a viable option, I like this alternative.
How do you see it react to being stepped on? This is a beautiful idea, but since clover usually doesn't like being stepped on (it usually froes in areas without a lit of foot passage) I'm wondering if planting it this tight together helps counter that? I really hope ut holds, coz it looks luscious
I have a shady backyard and I'd LOVE to find some grass alternatives like this! I'm in the NE US though and I can't seem to find many pretty, hearty, low maintenance plants native to the area 🥹 You're so lucky!!
Check into "Corsican mint" or "chocolate mint". I'm pretty sure they would do well in your climate. They are both a ground cover with a "runner"-type growth habit__Corsican mint being more low-growing and more delicate looking(looks similar to ''baby's tears"), whereas, chocolate mint's runners are chocolate-colored. But they both smell awesome when you step or lay on them! And, of course, no mowing! 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
You can always put a creeping thyme in the bare patches. That way when you step on it the herbal scent will release. Magic. Also white silvery plants will appear to glow in the moonlight for a nighttime whimsical feel.
Half my lawn is mountain thyme, it smells very nice when you walk on it. The other half used to be a clover lawn until an unexpected drought last October where I live killed it. Where I live normally October is rainy season so I already put away my hose and thought the clover could survive until the rains start. Turned out they couldn't survive 3 weeks without water because that's how long the drought ended up lasting
we sell artemisia at my work and i am always in love with how soft and silvery they are
I also love glover fields. The only drawback - u can't walk barefoot on it cause it will bloom and attracts bees and wasps. So please be careful
Thank you for information.
How does walking barefoot on it cause it to bloom...?
@@rebekah3483i think she just meant when it blooms, you can’t walk barefoot on it because the blooming attracts bees. Lol just a syntax thing!
Ahhh, my first bee sting was on the bottom of my bare foot in the front yard. Bee was on a clover flower. 😢
@@rebekah3483they meant “because” . They’re just worried to step on bees and wasps
For people who want to do this, please research native clover species for YOUR area! Remember to think of your environment and what benefits the wildlife around you.
The wildlife isn’t paying her bills. She can do what she wants.
@@christianmoran8122I’d hate to live near you
@@christianmoran8122Fellas we found the invasive weed
Cute! I'm a huge fan of alternatives, and hobbits. Dutch Clover tends to really stress here in the heat...and of course goes completely dormant in winter. In a sunny spot, I've used various low growing thymes. It smells good and takes being stepped on some. It can bloom in white, pinks, and reds. In more shade, I love native blue violets. They bloom in late spring and mound beautifully with their heart shaped dark green leaves. Recovers well from light traffic, I use them with stepping stones. No mow for either. Benefit: violets are a host plant for smaller butterfly species to overwinter. Thymes discourages pests and feeds bees.
This year, golden creeping jenny wandered its way into the violet stepping stone area. It's such a beautiful, non competitive ground cover! Recommend!!!
Now I want to see your yard so badly!! It sounds magical 😍
@amigos4erin currently in zone 6b.
where do you get your native violet? I'd love to grow some
@@VxiceheartxV violets grow almost everywhere in the states. mine just came up and I transplanted to where I wanted them. I've seen them in most people's shady yards or in flower beds, but people think of them as weeds and pull or spray them. Crazy! I think you can buy seed at places like Prairie Moon Nursery, too.
What I'm curious about are the bugs because where I live we have clover that grows widely but it's a breading ground for ants and spiders. I'd like grass I can walk on without shoes and not fear being attacked by spiders and ants lol
I totally feel you! Not fond of the creepy crawleys.
You'll need ASTRO turf then. 😂😉
@@tjyb1502 🤣🤣🤣 seriously
Another commenter mentioned it as a joke but you genuinely can use astroturf. You can choose a small portion of your yard that you’d like to use as a sitting/dining/chilling area and use a patch of astroturf to make it barefoot friendly. Just because it’s plastic doesn’t mean it’s evil! If you do try it I’d recommend stones or wood slats to divide it from the rest of the yard, since it will always be green.
@@dawert2667 I live in az. Astroturf is not barefoot approved in the summers. 🤣🤣 currently we have just rock and I hate it. So I went and bought a 8x10 thing of astroturf for me to pretend I have grass. 🤣🤣🤣
Clover also adds Nitrogen to the soil. It's used a lot as a "cover crop".
We have a wild ground cover I have let take over my yard. Does great in the Fl heat and rain and drought. It flowers and the bees love it.
no shit clover takes over and "does great", it's invasive.
@@haldouglas4773depends on where you live and what kind it is wether its considered invasive or not
@@haldouglas4773 they didn’t say clover
@@haldouglas4773 clover isn’t invasive. It’s naturalized ;)
@@manderly109naturalized species can become invasive. If they take over the ecosystem they're invasive.
Miner bees will nest under there so be careful.
Miner bees are not aggressive at all, even safe enough to watch them from a very close distance
@@jlcollins7673safe enough to step on?
@@kikielahlah what bees do you know safe enough to step on? Lol
There are aggressive bees and bees that are not aggressive. They'll all sting you.
@@jlcollins7673exactly. So, like OP said, be careful.
@@jlcollins7673if you walk on your lawn and there's bees living there you will most likely step on them at some point. It's like ground wasps, if you step on their home they don't like it.
I wish people would look into native ground covering in their area. They naturally do well in their native environment and are great for the ecosystem overall (not just the bees which people always focus on).
Be advised that dog poop is very difficult to locate and clean up in clover. Do not recommend if you have a dog and have kids who want to play on the yard.
Clover isn't indigenous.. should have picked another ground cover
So pretty
But you dont have roach issues in your area? In the area i live in, cloves are perfect breeding ground for american roaches.. like waterbug
Confirms that I want a non grass lawn
Y'all payin for this?
We just came back home one day and found our front garden filled to the brim
Are the clovers used native to your region?
Most likely not since it's a special dwarf clover but it doesn't necessarily matter with clover because once they flower it attracts many different pollinators
Now you need a rabbit. 😊
Does anyone know if this grows back in the spring/survive the winter? I would love to do this, but I live in Canada, so half of the year is winter and very snowy and cold!
My backyard is mixed with clovers and regular lawn. It's more lush-look here in TX especially in summer.
Less water required, more green and almost zero weeds ever since...
just a heads up: clover can be toxic to cats!! if you have cats, even if they're strictly indoor, please consider an alternative.
Thank you so much!!!! I’ve been looking for this comment!
Do you happen to know if all varieties are toxic? I’ve seen on a Redditor’s post that red clover is definitely a no-go, but was unsure about white clover.
Any more info would be appreciated!!!
Is it indigenous to your area?
It's a very invasive plant in the US.
This looks so LOVELY but My only problem with this are roaches 😭
Love the look, just one thing- if you are in America and that is white clover, that is just as environmentally harmful as non-native grass. Try to plant some native landscaping (flower garden, perhaps bushes) to help the native animals
Lover lawns look nice until your get a bunch of rain and it turns into an ugly muddy mess. Something to consider before jumping on the Clover Lawn bandwagon.
Does anyone know if this is safe for cats? I saw it should be okay for dogs, but I’m getting mixed search results for cats
Please list the brand. There are hundreds on Amazon, which one? Thank you!
Yeah no. Going to be nothing but mud come fall. Have fun with that mess and having dogs and kids. Just no
Super interested to see how this holds up in the late summer SD heat--hopefully well!
If it can survive Texas summers it can survive anywhere
I saw someone else saying it dies in winter though
The patches of clover in my yard stay green during droughts, whereas the grass dies and turns brown. Even when my lawn is green, the patches of clover are the greenest. I love it and will be converting my whole yard to clover.
Will this work in So Cal?!
The clover withstands hot summers better than the grass. When my grass is going brown the clover is still powering through!
Does it spread into the neighbour’s lawn?
This is an excellent question and should have significantly more votes. I'd also love to know
Considering in her last video she mentioned how she had planted an invasive species of grass with it let’s just assume that it will 😂
Just watch out for bees when it flowers
I want to see it in the spring! Do you get snow? Does it become a mud pit between snow and summer? Of course it looks gorgeous in summer… will it turn purple in the fall. I can’t wait to see!!! ❤
Bermuda grass Is not native to California
Such a great idea! Grass lawn is such a waste of water and space when you could have beautiful plants and pollinator friendly flowers to provide natural food and habitat for native critters. Bringing so much life into your garden. Clover has lovely flowers and the pollinators love it! To the negative commenter below, a plant is only a weed if it’s growing where it’s not wanted. What some people call weeds, others call wildflowers or meadow flowers and some are even medicinal!
honey, clover is literally invasive to north america.
Clover isnt a native plant though, it wont help "native wildlife" 😂 and she mixed it with bermuda grass which is an invasive weed that takes over EVERYTHING.
I've seen native bumblebees on nonnative clover, and I feel like clover is much better to have compared to grass.
@@mjbutnotmaryjane Lawn grasses aren't native either, so compared to those this is a step in the right direction as this is at least beneficial for local pollinators.
Since my husband passed away my grass doesn't get cut so often. I now have patches of flowering clicer, daisies, buttercups and "cabbage weed" (greenspreading plant with tiny yellow flowers. My garden is full of bees and 🐞.
The blossoms are another great way of saving the bees. (Edited for a typo.)
Are you not afraid of not being able to see snakes and what not when walking through it
I saw another family that did this. I did notice there is a big shift towards trying local groundcover for the diverse wildlife. Its fascinating how many options there actually are available. There are some forraging pages that go in depth. I can barely grow a stick but the plants that i have that were born and bred here with me live their own lives 😂
Bad for kids. Snakes and spiders would love it.
It doesn't really hold up well to traffic tho
Perfect for snakes and reptiles to get their meal
How well does this treat folks with bad allergies?? I keep thinking about trying it out! but my hubby has VERYYYY bad pollen allergies, and we were worried about the flowers blooming!
When you have to cut it, do you use a weedwacker or a mower? Thanks! Looks lovely!
Wish we could do micro clover here. Too expensive and vulnerable to blight in my area. Love our patches of white clover tho. Wish it would take over bigger areas.
Can I get this from home depot
How do u ensure u don't step in dog poop? I feel the clovers would hide the poo really well lol
Another commenter also warned about this! Apparently the poop is VERY difficult to locate
I feel like a snake might be hiding in there
In Ireland as pretty as clover can be and how helpful it is for the soil and the pollinators this is considered an invasive weed to most peoples lawns, you will soon find your neighbours will have clover creeping up in their gardens as it will spread like a weed does. fun fact though weed killers have little effect on clover which makes it pretty hard to remove once it’s taken over your lawn, to remove it you need to remove your entire lawn in spring, reseed grass and start again and hope and pray that doesn’t come back like wildfire in summer because it generally does.
I personally don’t have children, or dogs or an allergy to pollinators, so I don’t mind the clover in my garden however, if you want to use your garden come summer and you do have one of those 3 mentioned then you will not be able to atleast until the flowers are gone.
I have been wanting to plant ground cover for a lawn for at least 15 years, you just reignited that fire, this is beautiful!
Curious how you cut it!
I think the circles work really well with the clovers and it gives a really sweet, bubbly, inviting nature to ur house and lawn!
What does it look like in winter? Does it die out or turn brown/yellow?
I've heard that it turns into a mud pit. I have a small test patch I planted this spring, so we will see what happens.
How many bags did you need to get this result?
When i see this i see snake
This looks so cute!
Another bonus is that clovers are perfectly edible so if you have small kids you don't need to worry about them eating them and getting sick although some animals like rabbits for example can experience negative effects so be careful about that
But yeah as another commenter said wear shoes cause bugs love clovers and you probably want to avoid stepping on a bumblebee or something
Do you know if this is safe for cats? I was getting mixed results
@@melwaters7717 Yeah they're bad for cats
It's not like super severe, they'll be fine if they only eat a little one time but if they eat it too much or eat it often over an extended period of time they will get sick
So be careful
What's the link for this mini clover?
Me with a historic garden at my workplace wishing the mowers would come because the clover grows way too quickly lmao
It's pretty but attracts pests like SNAKES, voles, SNAKES,ground hogs, SNAKES, and wasps
Thyme works well too!!
So many questions asking about bugs, snakes, spiders, and more. 🤭 They're in San Diego, which is west coast, southern California. There aren't a lot of snakes, and if there are, they're harmless. Same with spiders. In my experience, the west coast has a lot fewer bugs and creepy crawlies than other parts of the US. We just don't have things like no see ums, or biting gnats, or ticks unless you're in the woods maybe, but even then I've literally never seen one in person lol I'm very interested in trying a clover/wildflower lawn, so watching the progress here is awesome!
I suppose that would depend on how close you are to trails. I'm in SoCal and there certainly are rattlesnakes, and such, here__as well as black widows, brown recluse, and, if it's damp, mosquitoes! Depending on the type of soil, red fire ants, too!
Most definitely, mice, rats, and cockroaches. 😛
🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
This is great!!! Love the glover 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💚💚💚💚💚
Suggestion: Add edges to the sides of the path...either natural stones or roughly cut stones/ edging stones. It could either follow the curv of the round stones or just be straight on the edges. And maybe have some natural stones making shapes.
But the path needs definement on the edges to really draw the eye for a journey. Right now the lower part of the fence and the house looks not symmetrical and that beautiful whimpsical feel of the round stones is somewhat lost.
But I absolutely love what you are up to!!! 🥰
Love it! Just be careful in winter because it will not be there in the winter and you'll have a muddy mess. A way to avoid this is to also seed grass in so it can reinforce the clover in the winter months.
This must depend where you live, in upper US and Canada the ground is covered with snow in winter.
they mixed it with bermuda grass. They didn't mention it in this video because all the comments called them out for using it lol
please be careful in warmer months. unless you're going to cut the blooms off once a week you'll have to be extremely mindful of wasps and bees in the clover blooms. they absolutely love them and it seems you know that but accidentally getting stung happens constantly
Where I live there are bees and wasps EVERYWHERE grass, clover or otherwise 😅 so these warning comments make me chuckle
@@goddammithoward,
They probably hang out in the grass looking for dew to drink. 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🐝🌎💖🙌😺
Id love to do this… but I live in Australia.
The sun says NO to cover lawns
I actually let the wild clover take over the areas where grass struggles to grow. Now we have a beautiful mixed lawn in the back yerd.
Hi. Can you tell me how much clover seed you use per 1000 square foot?
Be careful when you leave things with Heights that gives stuff like snakes a place to hide
4-6 inches, you would see the snake
This is sooo pretty! Does it flower? Can you walk on it or will it damage it?
No bro, we are winning Saint Patrick’s day with this ain’t no leprechaun getting away from this😂 I love it, BTW
It’s much healthier and stronger if you add clover seed to your existing sod structure. Giving the clovers a stronger base, you won’t have to worry about crushing clovers, and staining clothes as much. Clovers also have a much higher chance of reseeding in existing sod. You won’t have to reseed when they die.
We have a lawn that is mostly clover and wildflowers with some really resilient grass. We planted none of it :) its really beautiful and lush tho.
Do you have any trouble with your local HOA because of your clover lawn? The HOA in my parents neighborhood is super strict, they'd never allow this
"It doesn't turn brown from pet urine-" Sold! I'm getting clover for my lawn. I have three dogs. My lawn is a mess.
🍀❤️"Very, very pretty and whimsical"❤️☘️
Warnings to yall. First, just using clover youll have mud during winter and if you have pets youll be seeding every spring. Also, clover is technically a weed. So when you get typical weeds youll have to hand pick them cause chemicals typically used on lawns will kill clover as well. Clover attracts spiders. Clover is not for high traffic lawns or pathways. I used clover and regretted it for lawn. However, it is awesom for areas you wouldnt typically lawn. Below inaccecible retaining walls and rockbeds and under trees where grass will typically die. Clover also grows well in high acidic soil.
A huge portion of my lawn is clovers. 2 of my kids are terrified to go barefoot in it because it attracts so many bees!!! I kinda just watch my step but definitely been stung numerous times.. We do find lots of 4 leaf clovers though.
This is much better than replacing nature with smelly plastic grass carpet, or having a yard filled with hot rocks that make the entire street 10x hotter. 😒
If grass isn't a viable option, I like this alternative.
It did require chemicals, air and water. They look lovely!
it's not a good for pollinators if it's not native to the environment
It's still better than having grass also clover does not spread like grass
@@wisemysticaltreeuser,
It has a "naturalizing" growth habit__yes, it spreads. 🙏😇✨💫🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
Hmmm not a fan^^ would look better with grass in the backyard, but colver around the stones looks pretty
Does it survive well when u mow it? Grows back good? Looks really nice. Probably soft on your feet too. Thanks🎉
How do you see it react to being stepped on? This is a beautiful idea, but since clover usually doesn't like being stepped on (it usually froes in areas without a lit of foot passage) I'm wondering if planting it this tight together helps counter that? I really hope ut holds, coz it looks luscious
It looks very nice. Question- our cloves produce spurs which get caught in everything. Does that type not product then?
Reason number 4561 - I’m allergic to grass
I have a shady backyard and I'd LOVE to find some grass alternatives like this! I'm in the NE US though and I can't seem to find many pretty, hearty, low maintenance plants native to the area 🥹 You're so lucky!!
Check into "Corsican mint" or "chocolate mint". I'm pretty sure they would do well in your climate. They are both a ground cover with a "runner"-type growth habit__Corsican mint being more low-growing and more delicate looking(looks similar to ''baby's tears"), whereas, chocolate mint's runners are chocolate-colored. But they both smell awesome when you step or lay on them! And, of course, no mowing! 🙏😇✨💫🌱🌿🌻🐝🌳🌎💖🙌😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 Aw thank you so much for the recommendation!!! I'll look into it! It's much appreciated 😁
Does clover do well in very shaded yards? I’m trying to find a solution because idk if I can get any grass to grow because of how shaded it is.
Can we see a pic after you’ve mown it please?
As someone who has been trying to get rid of the clover because it attracts mits…
Good luck with that. That pathway is nice though.
Try mixing in pachysandra and dicondra for diversity and visual interest
What's it like for a family with 2 young children an a dog tho? I love how it looks but will it always look like that after it's been played on?
It also increases your chance to find a four leaf clover!❤
How on earth do yo cut a clover lawn? Wouldn’t it take off all the tops of the clover?? Confused.
Question for you. How do you get the squirrels and birds not to eat the seeds. I tried to grow my own clover lawn, but the critters ate the seeds! 😡
When did you all put it down did you tell the grass what did you sprinkle that over top of the old grass
My grass is loaded with clover. It makes care so much easier and smells so incredible when I mow.
Now you need to have some grasseater. Like chicken maybe. Because goat is too big.
And I think it would be fun to lay in it and just look for a four leaf clover’s. Have you ever found any?
Wish I could spread clover throughout my yard.
I just want to know, have you found any four-leaf clovers?
I would imagine that the local rabbits love to come and feast on your clover buffet
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Why does everyone talk in that fast paced super fast voice on tik tok and you tube?
Roaches will love hidimg under that
Hoped to replace lawn with mini clover till 1 of my dogs died from a bee sting.