Her dried-up yard won an ‘Ugliest Lawn’ award. She hopes it inspires others.

For years, yard work was at the bottom of Kathleen Murray’s to-do list.

She had intended to buy a lawn mower and finally trim the overgrown acres surrounding her home on the island of Tasmania. But as a single mom raising four children, there were always more pressing matters.

So instead of landscaping her yard, she watched as it became home to “nature’s lawn mowers,” she said.