Do you have a yard full of weeds, moss or other green stuff that you can’t quite identify? Worry not. You could be a trendsetter.

According to a story in this week’s TIME, “more homeowners are questioning whether the grass’s being greener is necessarily a good thing.”

This seedling-stage movement away from a sweeping, uniform lawn springs from a variety of sources: water restrictions, concerns about pesticides, a revolt against the rigors of lawn maintenance.

A picture-perfect lawn can require a lot of water, fertilizer and pesticides. Concerns about those issues led the Southern Nevada Water Authority to offer homeowners money —40 cents per square foot, or a maximum of $1,000 —to replace grass with less thirsty plants.

Wonder why Kannapolis, Landis and China Grove didn’t try that approach during their recent rounds of water restrictions?

But not everyone who eschews a lawn is being practical. Maybe they just want to be different, like the South Fulton Street woman in Salisbury who replaced her lawn with a variety of plants. Most yards all look the same, she told a Post reporter. “I wanted mine running roughshod, to match my personality.”

Ah, the American spirit. We may not be tackling new frontiers anymore. But we can still find new territory to conquer —right in our own front yards.