What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself at last!

In this ultimate guide to rethinking your yard, Hadden showcases dozens of inspiring, eco-friendly alternatives to that demanding (and dare we say boring?) green turf. Trade your lawn for a lively prairie or replace it with a runoff-reducing rain garden. Swap it for an interactive adventure garden or convert it to a low-maintenance living carpet. Hadden explores eleven different styles of lawn alternative, discussing and illustrating a variety of examples for each style.

Now that you're inspired, Hadden gets down to the nitty-gritty. Part 2 of the book offers practical advice for creating and maintaining an eco-friendly landscape, and the plant dictionary in Part 3 presents thumbnail profiles of choice ground-layer plants for a range of climates.

With Beautiful No-Mow Yards, you have all the information and encouragement you need to transform a neglected or unused lawn into a rewarding garden! This book has been Timber Press bestseller since its publication.

Fine Gardening, February 27, 2012
"... has it all: A compelling rationale for ignoring the siren song of the 'perfect' lawn, inspirational stories from gardeners and designers enthusiastically embracing this timely trend, and step-by-step instructions for creating easy-care, planet-friendly patches of paradise."   Read More