Installing a grass alternative lawn

We have lippia (phyla nodiflora) around a rocky foot path. It has spread really well and has beautiful little flowers. It's great for our use case, but I wouldn't recommend it if you want to be able to walk/play a lot on it, since bees like to visit the flowers, and you don't want to step on a bee.

Here's a pic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/eqyuarWAwXqG7yrTA (Ignore the hay strewn over, that's from my straw mulching elsewhere)

Hello! We installed kurapia late last summer almost a year ago.  It all started amazing, plush green - though we discovered it needed more water than we thought, about once a day for the first month and then every two days.  When autumn came, it almost dried out completely, which was a bummer.  We thought it had died… but… come the very wet season this year by the end of spring it was coming back.  I planted some extra plugs in the areas that were without cover (it is easily found at East Bay nursery, it is the only one where I found it is consistently available.)  Now we have an almost full green plush cover that looks great!  We still have tiny dirt patches here and there, as it grows slowly.  My kid plays on it without problem, even now when it is in flower.  Many posts says it attracts bees, and while it does bring in some bees it totally manageable and it’s nice to see the bees among the flowers.  My dog plays fetch on it as well without issue, though she’s a small dog so I don’t know if a big dog would cause issues.  The only thing to note is that dog pee can sometimes kill the kurapia in patches, so be prepared to still water it to dilute the pee every 2 days or so.  You do need to pick up dog poo because if you leave it long (more than a day) it burns the kurapia.

Summary: you need a lot of patience for kurapia to take hold, but once it’s established it works great for both kids and dogs.  It does need more water than you would have thought.

I put in Kurapia between the flagstones of a path and in a little 5'x10' patch of "lawn". I bought plugs of it from one of the many companies that sell it and planted the plugs in the fall last year. They looked pathetic, but I never had to water. By late spring, the parts that got more sun had filled in, and at this point in the year, it's mostly all filled in; some parts of the lawn area that gets more shade still has some bare patches. The kids and we walk on it, no problem, but we're not playing football on it or anything. I have watered the lawn patch twice this year. I will have to start trimming it back from the flagstones soon.

I love the flowers, and so do the bees. I've also seen butterflies on the flowers. If you don't want bees, you can mow the flowers off.