I have successfully talked my HOA into transforming the two communally-owned lots at the entrance of our neighborhood into native/perennial/pollinator gardens, instead of the grass treated with weedkillers and planted with decorative-who-knows-what that they are right now. Ideally it would become something requiring zero or almost-zero maintenance.
So, I am looking for bids. Deadline for bids is mid-March! Work would be done in the spring of course. Please PM me if you are interested, or leave a comment if you have further questions or want to tell me something you think I should know.
The budget is probably going to be in the neighborhood of $1000 but could be a bit higher; basically right now we pay $3000 a year for someone to mow, mulch, weed, and spray chemicals on these two lots plus a much bigger football-field-sized one elsewhere in the neighborhood, so I'm hoping $1000 can take care of just these two small lots for starters.
I have pitched this to the HOA as a cost-saving measure even though I mainly have environmental motivations.
Based on Google maps I estimate the total area of these lots is 5,000 sqft minus the area taken up by signs, the curved edges of the lots, etc. (See image below; I have roughly outlined very approximately where I believe the boundaries are; note scale at bottom right.)
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