I also hate yard work...had to do it when I was a kid but when I was on my own I either had colored gravel or hired a gardener to take care of my yard.I can't do that unfortunately. It's not that I can't do yard work. It's that I hate yard work. We do it, but only because we have to every year to keep the yard looking nice. If it was up to me, our yard would have been concreted in long ago.