Quote Originally Posted by wetfeet101b View Post
Although my backyard is not the type that would win a suburban lawn of the year award, with its unkempt weeds and rag-tag assortment of naturalized grasses at different spots, it feels great that in my own little way I helped the ladybug population with its attempt to rebound from habitat loss.
Not to mention that my neighbors benefit from the free aphid control so that they dont have to resort to buying pesticides.

Hmmm. I wonder if I should file for my backyard as a protected wildlife habitat, so that the homeowners association would get off my back about the "weeds" in my yard.
My husband would refer to that type of lawn as poly-cultural. He says that all the time when our yard gets a little out of hand--"ah, don't worry it is poly-cultural." Some how that just sounds better than weed infested.

Sounds like a ladybug heaven!