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Front Yard Native Gardens Build Community and Change Landscape
A neighborhood features residents transforming front lawns into native plant gardens. Rawson expands from a yard section to a broader project using fallen bur oak wood for garden steps while neighbors share ideas, swap plants, and embrace meadows. Rhame notes gardens as ice breakers and fireflies inspire quality time with family. Ross grows a seed meadow with low maintenance, rabbits deterred by plant choice, and a gravel sun garden with limestone mulch to suppress weeds.
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Rawson
Grand Avenue SE
Heather Adams
Adams
Nathan
Rhame
Natalie Ross
Ross
Karen Rawson
Cedar Rapids
Jim Slosiarek
the Gazette