Native plantings, pollinator beds, and prairie gardens are welcome in Licking County, and Granville actively promotes them. Just keep beds tended, since an unmaintained yard can still draw a weed-nuisance notice.
No rule forces a traditional turf lawn in Licking County. Granville's Go Green sustainable-landscape effort and the Licking Soil and Water Conservation District both encourage native plants and pollinator habitat over mowed grass. The catch is maintenance: enforcement looks at whether a bed is an intentional, tended planting or simply neglected overgrowth that trips the vegetation-height ordinance. Watch aggressive invasives spreading through central Ohio, especially bush honeysuckle and callery (Bradford) pear, which crowd out natives.
Native and pollinator gardens are allowed. But a bed left to go wild with noxious weeds can still trigger the vegetation-height ordinance and an abatement notice from the city or township.
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