Going native: Trading Bermuda grass for something bees like
Allie Mounce poses for a portrait with Marigold the chicken in her backyard May 31, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
In her front yard, High Point Terrace’s Allie Mounce is manifesting what she wants to see in the wider world: native plants.
She recently ripped up her front lawn to replace it with New England aster, stiff coreopsis, purple coneflower, Joe Pye weed and bergamot, which should be less maintenance for her, but also better for the environment.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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