Bought my house a few years ago in a rural area and it was all lawn in the front and back with invasive bushes, trees, and monkey grass everywhere. Now it's 90% native and still in progress of removing the last of the invasives and the few chunks of lawn holding out since I want zero lawn.   
  
The front yard is a wild mess now with asters, goldenrods, and one story tall ironweeds that planted themselves. Plus many native bushes, trees, and flowers I planted that are still developing (white and pink dogwoods, native plum, Wild Sweet William, Black and brown eyed susans, coneflowers, redbuds, St. John's Wort, Prairie Ninebark, etc.). I cut down a mature Bradford pear in the front yard as my first thing and a large mimosa second.  
  
All the pictures are the back yard with a huge goldenrod patch with ironweed and asters mixed in. Plus patches of primrose, milkweed, and native sunflowers. The woods is full of yellow trillium, mayapples, jack in the pulpits, and pokeweed. There's a huge trillium patch in the Spring that I keep forgetting to take photos of.  
  
Most of the yard is woods and I've been clearing invasive honeysuckle and English ivy from there plus so much trash. The bulk of the trees are 100+ year old tulip poplars, pine, red oaks, and a giant white oak. 

Yes, the neighbors have questions. They drive by and offer to cut down my trees and mow.

Lawn Conversion Progress