No Hernando County ordinance can force a turf lawn. Florida Statute 373.185 bars any local ordinance or deed restriction from prohibiting Florida-Friendly Landscaping, so residents may replace grass with native, drought-tolerant, and pollinator plantings.
Florida law protects native and drought-tolerant landscaping outright. Florida Statute 373.185 provides that neither a local government ordinance nor a deed restriction may prohibit or be enforced to prohibit a property owner from implementing Florida-Friendly Landscaping. So homeowners across Hernando County, including the deed-restricted subdivisions of Spring Hill, may landscape with Florida native species, pollinator gardens, and low-water beds. The state and SWFWMD promote it to cut irrigation demand and protect the aquifer and springs. The one limit is upkeep: a genuinely neglected, overgrown yard can still draw a nuisance notice, so an intentional native planting is best kept tended and defined.
None for native planting itself. A neglected, overgrown planting can still draw a county nuisance notice, but a tended Florida-Friendly yard is protected from enforcement by Florida Statute 373.185.
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