Say No to a Manicured Yard

This past week my local environmental club and I visited two different parks to compare plant diversity. One was in a protected prairie field, and the other was a local park surrounding a playground. We found that the prairie had more plant diversity than the other. You would call the prairie a mosaic type of yard because it has a variety of plant species compared to a manicured yard that has one or two types of grasses and flowers.

here is a photo of Sommes Prairie (photo curtesy of Vestal Grove)