No New Jersey statute or Somerset County ordinance restricts native or drought-tolerant planting. Residents may replace lawn with native meadow or pollinator beds, and the state and Highlands Council actively encourage native landscaping.
New Jersey imposes no legal limit on choosing native plants, and Somerset County holds no such rule, so homeowners from Franklin to Montgomery may landscape with native species, pollinator gardens, and no-mow meadows without county approval. The state and the Highlands Council promote native and drought-resistant planting to cut irrigation demand and slow runoff. The real constraints are two: a municipal property-maintenance or weed ordinance can still cite genuinely neglected overgrowth, so an intentional meadow is best kept tended and defined; and private homeowner-association covenants, common in newer Bedminster and Bridgewater developments, may set their own landscape standards. No town forces a grass lawn.
None from the county or state for native planting itself. A poorly maintained planting can still draw a municipal weed-ordinance notice under N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.13, and private HOA covenants may enforce their own landscape rules through fines.
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