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Balcony Gardeners of Chapel Hill and Carrboro: Let’s talk native plants!

Lawns are a holdover from 18th-century England and France that have no business dominating our American landscapes. Making lawns survive in the hot and humid South is expensive, time-intensive, and input-intensive. Worst of all, HOAs can institutionalize this expense in ways that exclude low-income tenants and perpetuate housing segregation. Most gardening columns focus exclusively on […]