Part of the appeal of my house was that it had a large lot with just a small amount of lawn.   At our previous house it took an hour to mow and lots of watering to keep the yard looking nice.   After the last big drought, my husband ripped out the water hungry blue grass and planted buffalo grass, which only grows about 5 inches tall.   Some of the taller grass re-seeded itself, but I decided to leave it and have a meadow instead of a lawn.   (It will stay a meadow until the city forces me to mow).   My husband was a German, so he liked things to be orderly, but I love the way the meadow looks.

This is some sort of wildflower.

This is oregano that seeded inself into the lawn.

These escaped from the flower bed.  The bare space by the house is where I had to remove the juniper because of fire mitigation.

A weed.  Maybe it will stay and maybe it will go.