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Posted By American Meadows Content Team on Apr 23, 2024 · Revised on Oct 26, 2025
Looking for garden ideas, front yard ideas, or backyard landscaping ideas? You’ve found your one-stop-shop for everything you need, from microclover to meadows and everything in between. Our Better Yard Solutions include exclusive wildflower seed mixes, lawn seeds, pre-planned gardens, and bulb collections to help you make your yard better than ever.
Have town or HOA restrictions on what can grow in your front yard, or you want an area to walk and play? Microclover is a great option for a low-maintenance lawn that looks as lush and green as possible. You'll need less watering - no fertilizing, herbicides, or pesticides - and less mowing!
Learn More: All About MicrocloverÂ
If your yards features tall trees, or if you have neighboring buildings and fences that block your light, you need solutions for shade. Microclover is one of our most shade-tolerant lawn options, and you can grow an abundance of beautiful plants that thrive in the shade.
Learn More: Well-Designed Shade Garden
Perennials are long-lasting plants that get better with each passing season. Our team has curated beautiful pre-planned gardens and plant collections for shade, deer resistant planting, attracting your favorite pollinators, and more.
Learn More: How To Plant A Pre-Planned Garden
There is nothing better than bringing home a fresh-cut flower bouquet from your own garden! Plant your bulb in spring, like these Dahlias, and enjoy huge, stunning flowers from summer all the way until frost.
Learn More: How To Grow DahliasÂ
You can replace some - or all - of your front yard or back yard with wildflowers! If you want the look and feel of a wildflower meadow, but want more of a "tame" neat and tidy appearance, our Wildflower Lawn seed mixes are the perfect solution.
Learn More: Compare Wildflower Lawn Seed Mixes
Many front yards and back yards have space for both lawn areas areas and wildflower meadows. In large yards, growing wildflowers means that you can cut back significantly on mowing - while inviting bees, butterflies, and songbirds to call their yard home.
Learn More: How To Choose WildflowersÂ
If you’re looking for backyard ideas for your large yard, you this is your sign to grow a wildflower meadow! Our customers in Vermont transformed 2+ acres of their yard from mowed lawn to meadow. Buzzing and humming with life, their yard has truly brightened their community.
