I don’t want this much ornamental grass, what do I do? Let nature take over a patch of it? Hire a landscape designer for a minimum of 10k? Please send help.
More info: I’ve stopped using -icides and I have a robot mower at 3.5”.
I have let a patch grow wild and added a couple apple trees and wildflowers. The city code enforcers want to mow it and fine me, but I don’t plan on letting them.
I’m kinda against fences because they feel pretty anti-social and I’m already only allowed to see people if I use a car. Then again, fences seem like the only way to combat these crazy deer.
I don’t want to design it myself because I want to believe that professional landscape designers do more than just plop stuff around on a whim.
As others have suggested, shade out the bullshit with a diverse array of fruit trees and other useful vegetation in order to reclaim the land and grow an abundance of food at the same time. Even if you can’t devote much time and energy to it, planting some vigorous (ideally native) pioneer species and hardy fruit trees and then just tossing seeds in there on a regular basis will go a long way toward exterminating the grass. I also second the recommendation of clover as a groundcover.