
Sustainable, naturalistic garden design has been rising in popularity for a while now – and there's no reason you can't embrace the look in your front yard as well as out back. The first step is to swap out that traditional, labor-intensive turf or portions of uninspiring paving with a more colorful and eco-friendly alternative: wildflowers.
After successfully turning areas of her backyard pasture into a wildflower garden last year, Lindsey Chastain from the homesteading blog Waddle and Cluck started transforming her front yard to match. 'We love that it cuts down on mowing and looks beautiful,' she says.