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LAWN GONE

LET IT GROW

ay Area landscape designer and horticulturist John Greenlee wants us to lose the “grow-mow-blow” mentality. “Millions of pounds of chemicals are put down on American lawns every single year,” he says. But he doesn’t want us to abandon grass altogether. Greenlee champions a wider and more native palette of grasses that have evolved to thrive in specific climates. At the ranch of Nancy and Tony Lilly in the Sonoma

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