20 | Oregon Home About that front-yard meadow… The Wards’ neighborhood is home to mostly manicured front lawns, but their neighbors are always curious about the wild, sometimes 3- to 4-ft. grasses as tall as their youngest child. “We wanted to create a planted landscape that looked like a painting,” Kevin Ward says. There, he annually switches out grasses based on whim and what changes, since some natives, like fireweed, crowd each other out. “I get tired of certain colors,” he says. “And some plants are bullies.”
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