I like your appreciation of nature.

Nope. Not weird. I always wondered what makes one flower "desirable" and another a weed.

I live next to a scalper too. He can't figure out why his lawn never looks good. Hmmmm. Maybe cause you wait til it's 8-9 inches tall and then scalp it? Where's a good HOA when you need it? Oh, I know! out hassling families with kids about their swing sets.

It is actually better for the lawn and keeps weeds down if you mow it high. 2 1/2 - 3" is the standard recommendation. Scalping is just a poor lawn maintenance issue.

A weed is a plant in a place where you don't want it.

We mow high. I say 'we'....when I don't think I've mowed this lawn myself since moving here (5 years). DH doesn't mind and does it a couple of times a week. Organic fertilizer applied lightly about 4 times a year, and he digs any dandelions (including on the wild hill in back that isn't mowed. A dandelion, he can recognize). I hate putting anything chemical on an area as large as lawn, and haven't. It's the love side of that love/hate relationship with the deer and chipmunks. I don't invite them to lay on my lawn, but they do it anyway.

I do the same - allowing dandelions and clover to flower. I feel that I am doing my part to keep the bees going. And I keep mine at 3" also. It has gotten high fast this year. All that rain!! Not only watering the grass but making me wait until it dries before cutting!! But everything looks gloriously green!!

DH always cuts the lawn higher as scalping it makes the grass more vulnerable to drying out, weakening the lawn and leading to weed invasions.

One or two yards near me are full, lush, deep green, no weeds pure grass. Most of us have a mix of grass, clover, dandelions, etc. I noticed one lawn last May that was almost pure dandelion -- such a big crop! The owner's did nothing. And by July, their lawn looked exactly like everyone else's. Since then, I don't sweat dandelions. I don't let DH use chemicals on weeds. If he wants them gone, do it the old fashioned way, pulling them by hand. He's now okay with a couple weeds too.

One man's weed is another man's flower.

3.5 inches except for November/December it's 2.5 inches. I spot spray any weeds to keep them in check. I don't water. Heat Dormancy is normal for turf grasses. Soil testing is also important so I do that every two years and make soil amendments accordingly.

Our HOA enforces lawn maintenance regulations. Another plus for my neighborhood.

My nextdoor neighbor has free access to my mower. As a renter, he uses it to mow his little lawn. I've emphasize to him every spring that I let my front lawn go unmown until mid-May because #1, it is zoysia and does not start growing much until the weather is hot, and #2, we have crocus flowers in the lawn and their leaves need to mature to build up the corms for next year. But this spring my neighbor mowed off my front lawn to kind of pay me back for the use of the mower. The crocuses were not ready to be mown and he had the blade set too low besides. Yep-- scalped.

When we first bought this house (our cottage at that time), we had one of our boys, maybe 18, out mowing the grass on the rider. He kept going all over the place, never in a straight line. We couldn’t figure out what he was doing! Turns out he was avoiding the Indian paint brush. I smile as I think of how this 6’ 3” kid told us his reason. He really is a sentimental soul!

Sometimes it depends on the equipment you use to mow your lawn. My daughter hates mowing her lawn and my husband can't wait till spring so he can mow. The difference is my daughter has a non self propelled push lawn mower and my husband has a riding lawn mower. I chuckle when I see him mow the lawn. He hates ball cap, but he puts on this John Deer ball cap they sent to him and I think he pretends he is farmer Brown. We only have an acre. Lol Hubby cuts at 3 inches twice a week this time of year. July and August it is usually once a week due to less rain. Yes we have a lawn service that routinely applies weed killer, fertilizer, and tick /grub killer. Love it.

I don't think you're weird. I would have to be called weird too and obviously I'm not ;-).

I love a garden lawn. There are pretty yellow flowers growing in my lawn which probably are invasive but since I don't water they are green when nothing else.

I mow my grass high at son's recommendation. We take turns mowing the lawn and cleaning up in the garden. Right now we are having to mow the lawn once a week. The grass is definitely healthy and well-watered naturally right now. We get really no rain in the summer so it will turn a nice yellowish then.

We too have some patches of zoysia...we had a lot of it before the build and managed to salvage some for the final lawn. It's wonderful stuff...it doesn't bother me at all that it stays beige into the spring as it is green all summer no matter how dry and it grows so densely there's nary a weed in it. It needs mowing less often than other grasses, and it is such a lovely bouncy cushion to walk on.