The American Meadow Garden provides lawn alternatives

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Greenlee said he hopes his book will reach lawn owners ready to change.
"I get what lawn does from a design standpoint; it's a cool place for your eye to rest," he said. "But if you don't have to play golf on it, there are all these other great things you could consider. I drive out to the suburbs and see hundred- to 800-hundred-foot square rugs of turfgrass in various stages of looking crummy. You have to water, weed, fertilize, plug and spray them. Maybe your kids have moved out, the shade trees have grown up, the lawn's not looking all that good. Why have a crappy lawn when you can have a fabulous meadow?"
His book was published this month by Timber Press.