There's no doubt that everyone loves a neatly trimmed and manicured lawn.  One kept with grass and landscaped with beautiful store bought trees, shrubs and garden flowers.  But have you ever thought about what might grow in your yard if even just a small part is left to itself?

My husband has a gifted ability to make our landscaping around our home look wonderful, but he's also well aware of letting nature show off it's own landscaping abilities.  All around the bottom edges of our yard, right where our creek is and where it meets the woods, we allow about a 5-6 foot area to "grow wild".  This is where we've been blessed to be able to identify some of the most beautiful plants and wildflowers (see that patch of Black-Eyed Susans in the above photo?  That's where I got the photo for my blog banner!).  We've also observed countless cool-looking insects and have discovered little bird's nests perhaps built by Sparrows who prefer their nests down low to the ground.

And another thing that is really neat about God's natural landscaping, is that it changes through the days and seasons!  One week we may have Robin's Plantain growing and the next Chicory, it's always giving us a different view.

Around the base of trees is also a neat place to "let it grow".  There we may find different kinds of wildflowers and insects.  And we keep a few old logs and rocks around the bases of some of our trees just for those instances when we'd like to turn them over!

Even if your yard space is limited, perhaps you could spare just a very small area to let it grow wild.  Even in a small space, a new world awaits to be discovered!