TallGrass, that's a really cool looking photo. Did this just fully convert an ordinary mowed front yard into the tall native bluestem and more? What do the neighbors think?
Thank you! There's a little ribbon of turf grass that runs across the front yard as a visual break.
This photo's vantage point is from the side with the most grass. (About 98% prairiegrass/flowers.) This side also has big bluestem, Indian grass, bee balm, goldenrod, asters, Joe Pye weed, thimbleweed, pussytoes, pasqueflower, rattlesnake master, pentsemon, side oats gramma, blue gramma, false blue indigo, mountain mint, blazing star, common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, queen of the prairie, Black-eyed Susans and probably a few other plants I'm forgetting.
The other side has a smaller planting, more lawn and then an island with a wild rose bush, little bluestem and switch grass.
Only one neighbor (a few houses down) immediately complemented the garden. I started it in 2014. No one, including the neighbors on either side of me, have complained. But I get the impression that they don't "get it."
Last fall, a neighbor across the street came over while I was working in the yard.
NEIGHBOR: This is really great! It's looking really good now.
ME: Thank you!
NEIGHBOR: I was worried for a while.
ME: It is a little unorthodox.
NEIGHBOR: At first I thought, 'This is a little weird.'
ME: Well, it does take time for plants to mature. They were pretty small when I planted them.
NEIGHBOR: As long as no one complains to the city!
[Neighbor walks away.]
Haha.
Here are a few older photos showing the side of the yard with the most prairiegrass from inside the yard looking out at the street, and a shot from winter:
