Bill was introduced in Sep/25, but I only got a whiff of it in the last couple of weeks
See House Bill HB1878: https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/pa/2025-2026/bills/PAB00038963/
Are there any other states/countries taking similar initiatives?
Summary:
Pennsylvania homeowners deserve the right to choose native plant species they desire for landscaping around their homes. However, work is needed to remove bottlenecks for homeowners to select native vegetation for their desired landscaping.
This legislation will prevent homeowners associations (HOAs) from unreasonably prohibiting the use of native plants for landscaping on private property. This ensures homeowners residing within an HOA the same ability to choose native landscaping as other homeowners.
Native plants provide many beneficial functions that many homeowners desire. These include being aesthetically pleasing and providing habitat for pollinators while being adapted to the site and typically requiring lower maintenance than non-native plants. […]
What’s the point of even having a yard if it looks like the ones in the picture? Why not just go live in an apartment then. To me, owning a piece of land to enjoy was kind of the key reason I wanted to own a house in the first place.
Dog bathroom.
Where I live, it’s a bathroom for other people’s dogs.
Wait are you referring to the flat green lawns or the native / overgrown one?
Yeah native plants does not mean you have to keep your lawn an overgrown jungle.
If it’s your yard you should be allowed to have an overgrown jungle if you so wish.
I agree, if only you are controlling invasives, and promoting native plants. Emphesis on controlling invasives.
Most grasses that people intentionally plant and cultivate are invasive.
Just like what ICE are doing you mean?
ew what
Your land has effects on you’re neighbors’ land.
Anyone who has had a big tree stretching across the property line can tell you this.
What you say is true, but I have absolutely no idea which direction you are trying to go with that comment.
…do you see where you’re posting?..thriving verdant habitats are kind of the entire point of a no-lawns community, and while you’re free to rail against natural growth within groomed enviroments it’s kind of an old-man-yells-at-cloud exercise in futility…
I’m guessing they’re referring to the empty lawns that are clearly just there for show.