Trees are even better because they offer some privacy for the house and rest of your yard.
I swear the back yards of suburbs are designed to be flat and open so your neighbors can always snoop on everything from their windows. Panopticon design.
I'd read this short story, where a strange asphalt-covered parking lot planet is discovered and subsequently herbaformed[0] by an eco-hippie expedition ship (probably named 'A weed is but an unloved flower' in Iain M Banks fashion[1])
[0] maybe there's a 'green' non-evil version of the Evil Gray Goo
There are lots of options.