Clover is an excellent adjunct for turfgrass. Not only do they live symbolically (the clover is a legume and supplies nitrogen to the turfgrass) crabgrass has been shown to be antagonistic towards crabgrass.
As to the article, the more flowery the adjectives (sorry…) the less credible the story. It sets my 🐂 💩 meter off. While I do not wish to plow under the author’s garden, there’s no mention of the downside of having a habitat like this near your home. This is a fantastic place for ticks and rodents to proliferate.
There’s a meme out there somewhere showing a wildflower garden in front of someone’s home and the caption says “I don’t know. That looks like foreclosure to me.”
Our town seems to have a liberal view of allowing prairie grass in front yards, but I don’t really see a lot of people doing it. Chicken coups are allowed also. Another thing I noticed is people use fallen tree limbs instead of treated lumber or bricks to frame mulch areas. It looks like hell and I suspect they will termite havens.
Clover and Plantain help keep your yard green in a drought.
Always good to mix it up.
My wild area gets burnt down every year. Haven’t had any tick problems.
See my last post for details.