The purpose of this photo collection is to inspire homeowners to reduce or remove their front-yard lawn, and to help them find designs that they like and that their HOA and their neighbors might like, too.

Front- yard gardens are inspiring, exciting and kinda badass. These gardeners have liberated their front yards!

“MarylandSusan" is Susan Harris, a garden writer and retired gardening coach in the Washington, DC area. She co-founded the team blog GardenRant.com and writes there weekly. She's been covering lawn replacement since 2007 when she began her own lawn-to-groundcover project. (See all my lawn and lawn-replacement articles here: gardenrant.com/2021/06/my-15-years-of-ranting-about-lawn-...)

Susan has a cooperatively owned townhouse garden in the New Deal "utopia" of Greenbelt, where there are lots of rules and a yearly yard inspection.