This presentation wishes to unpack several theoretical threads that can be pulled from the current gardening practice known as xeriscaping which aims at replacing lawn and turf from the urban landscapes of the American West with indigenous and draught-resistant species of plants. The rich historiography (see inter alia Robbins 2007) around lawn as cultural artifact of the suburban form will work here as starting point. This historiography points to a political ecology reading of this recent transformation, yet it is not the only thread that can be pulled from our lawn theoretically: I will also propose to discuss lawn within the framing of critical Transition Management studies (how lawns have come to symbolize climate change and how acting upon them, i.e. removing them, is represented and valued as the next step) , as well as with studies of the post-colony (how lawns are also in other parts of the world a symbol of colonial order) through a decentering of lawn as object of inquiry. ROBBINS, P. (2007) Lawn people: how grasses, weeds, and chemicals make us who we are. Temple University Press.