Chesterfield County does not require homeowners to plant native species in ordinary yards, but native and regionally appropriate plants are required for restoration and replacement planting within Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area buffers.
For a standard residential lawn or garden, plant choice is up to the owner; the county imposes no native-planting mandate and does not ban ornamental species (subject to noxious-weed limits and HOA rules). Native plants become mandatory in a regulatory sense inside Resource Protection Area buffers: when the county requires a replacement or restoration planting after buffer disturbance, plantings must be native or regionally suited stock certified to the appropriate hardiness zones and planted per the approved plan. The county's water-wise guidance also promotes drought-tolerant native landscaping to cut irrigation and protect stream health.
No penalty for plant choice in ordinary yards. In an RPA, failing to install required native restoration plantings is a Chesapeake Bay ordinance violation subject to county-ordered replanting.
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