Alternative Natural Lawn at Oak Hills Park

Oak Hills Park Nature Center features a demonstration "Alternative Natural Lawn." Located in the Fountain Garden behind Odeen's restaurant, this second-year natural lawn is an attractive mixture of a fine fescue, flowers, and clovers and provides a colorful and diverse alternative to a grass lawn.

By showcasing this environmentally-friendly landscaping method, homeowners, businesses, and municipalities are invited to view the beauty of this natural lawn, and learn about its many benefits: Naturalized ground cover, drought-tolerant, less/no mowing, no chemicals, helps pollinators, and is cost-effective.

Throughout the summer, the Alternative Natural Lawn will experience several flowering phases and colors. Visit Oak Hills Park's nature center soon to experience this new lawn method.

Above: A beautiful mix of native low-growing flowers and grasses in our first demo, 2025.

Oak Hills Park Nature Advisory Committee members Mary Verel and Audrey Cozzarin with Mike Pappa of ArtScapes landscaping admiring the success of our first Alternative Nature Lawn demo area, 2025.