Has anyone had issues with their HOA

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00:00Has anyone had issues with their HOA when trying to plant natives?

00:04My community has a landscape committee made up of 14 homeowners, of 81 townhomes.

00:09The landscape committee recently submitted an awesome proposal to the board regarding planting natives,

00:14like purple coneflower, black-eyed Susans, swamp milkweed, among others.

00:19It was a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation discussing why planting natives over other flowers

00:24is better for the pollinators, and I personally think the proposal is fantastic.

00:29I'm the HOA president.

00:31Another person on the board is asking for so much of this committee

00:34and treating them as if they are a contractor we are hiring.

00:38I'm all for them providing us information like what plants they plan to use, which they did,

00:43and where they plan to plant them, which they did, with drawings.

00:47But this board member says native plants are ugly, and so she doesn't want to approve the proposal.

00:52Her exact word was actually horrendous, but that seems a bit overdramatic to me.

00:57The Garden Club D'Arche Landscape Committee is requesting $1,500 to buy all of the plants,

01:03to put in six areas around our development, and the members of the club will plant it for free.

01:08No one else on the board has responded yet.

01:11There's four of us.

01:12One vote yes and one vote no.

01:13I guess I'm just wanting to ask the Reddit HOA community how you approach using native plants in landscaping

01:20and what people think about that.

01:21And if you have any landscaping committee, garden clubs, and your HOA,

01:25how much autonomy do you let them have?