I have always practiced Darwinian lawn maintenance – whatever is willing to grow stays… The rural lawn that I grew up with had many zones: under the big ol’ oak tree was 50% moss, under the copse of giant white pines was almost nothing, behind the old barn was the sort of turf that the obsessive weed-spray/fertilizer folks were aiming for, a large section of the “back yard” was red clover, etc…
In Los Angeles, a large part of the “grass” seems to consist of some sort of vine-like weed (I assume kikuyu-grass), the backyard seems to be relatively normal grass (hardy drought-resistant stuff).
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