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05-07-2004, 09:02 AM
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Lawn Madness!
"Warwick" wrote in message ... In article , says... "Joe" wrote in message . .. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 at 18:21:16 Les &/or Claire wrote: Reading back through the posts over the last few months I'm still puzzled by peoples need for a mono-culture lawn. I can think of nothing more boring in a garden than a "perfect" lawn. The amount of work, feed and weedkiller it takes to produce a "bowling green" type lawn must be horrendous. Not to mention the expense of turf, seed and water. To my mind, the plants, fungi and moss ( a mossy lawn in bare feet in the summer..... delicious! ) that arrive if you just mow an area are much more interesting, beautiful to look at, harder wearing, better for the environment and more practical than a luminous green, over fed, fragile, artificial lawn. I would hate a garden without daises, dandelions and fairy rings. Plus, a mixture of plants in a lawn attract many beneficial insects and help to preserve bio diversity, a thing much undervalued in our gardens. So, throw away the moss killer, weedkiller, lawn feed, roller and raise the blades on your mower a few inches. Let nature back in and let your lawn be part of nature, not apart from nature! Les  )We all have our individual likes and dislikes: some of us enjoy growing vegetables, others are obsessed with organic methods, some like hard landscaping, others prefer a more rustic environment. There's nothing wrong with a perfect lawn ... I admire them, and if I had the time, I would strive to perfection also. Quite right - if someone wants a 'perfect' lawn, good luck to them. As for all this 'Let nature back in and let your lawn be part of nature, not apart from nature!' stuff, it sounds good, but is pretty meaningless, really. If a gardener were to really 'let nature back in', he/she would have to just stop gardening altogether and let things take care of themselves. Pretty soon, there'd be no lawn, beds, or any recognisable 'garden' at all. A lawn with long grass and a few 'weeds' tolerated isn't much more 'natural' than one with short grass and fewer 'weeds'. Yes, but there are 'acceptable' lawn plants IMHO and grass is just one of them. Th lawn I acquired with the house only held grass and dock in the main and I wasn't going to tolerate dock, but there was something missing that my inner child demanded and I'm actually actively working on. We're up to 6 patches of thriving clover spreading their way out and, to make for the most bizarre side of greenhouse staging in the UK I am growing daisies and splitting them as often as I dare to get them into the lawn before the end of the year. Thymus serpyllum is an excellent plant fot a mixed lawn If you mow irregularly enough, you are rewarded with a carpet of flowers. It propagates as easily as falling off a bar stool. Franz |
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