I would love to replace my lawn with all dandelions, but everyone says no.
I read somewhere, dandelions where popular for lawns a century or to ago. Forgot where I saw that.
I read somewhere, dandelions where popular for lawns a century or to ago. Forgot where I saw that.
If you live within throwing distance of a neighbor who does not wish to have a lawn of dandelions, you will be a target of ill feelings for your invasive weed colony.
Lawn grasses have been selected to keep the ground covered and tolerate being walked on and played on. If you don't want to walk on or play on your yard, then there is a wide choice of ground cover that keeps the ground covered all year long and isn't a wildly airborne spreading invasive weed.
Clover, dandelions, crabgrass, dallisgrass, etc were just part of our yard. We also used it often as grazing for the horses as an alternative to spending hours mowing every few weeks. So any attempt as species control would have been undone by the horse manure anyways.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=1&subview=...
You could create a beautiful multi species meadow that would cycle through different plants with the seasons. Or you could build vegetable garden beds surrounded by wood mulch. Or use a low lying no-mow ground over.
I'm not sympathetic to the neighbors who might not like it, though. If their yard's ecosystems isn't resilient then that's their problem.