Our first summer in this house this front walk was surrounded by a nasty perennial grass that I didn't like the look of at all. Now it has been taken over by clover.
I don't understand why I see so many people online trying to find out where to buy clover seed. Yeah, I get that people don't want to raise grass: apply chemical pesticides and herbicides, water all the time, contribute to fertilizer run-off that is poisoning the bay (insert local water body of your choice), etc. But clover is a weed. If you stop babying your grass and clover doesn't grow there on its own (if for instance you get violets, or moss, or plantains - all things that grow with wild abandon in other parts of my yard), I tend to think planting clover is no better than planting grass - just another attempt at monoculturing an inappropriately sited plant that's going to need special care to survive.
But yes, it is pretty.
