Unique gardens that take the path less travelled

Tamar Rudavsky standing among some vegetables she's planted in her front yard. Photos: TNS

For decades, the perfectly mowed lawn has endured as an American pursuit. But today, a growing number of homeowners are rethinking this default landscape feature in the neighbourhoods of America’s heartland as they downsize or replace these grassy spaces with other more productive and often less time- and chemical-consuming alternatives.

A couple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, chose to exchange their shaded, failing grass for a thriving, no-mow moss lawn.