RE: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 3157

Seán,
Here are a couple of gardens that used Achillea millefolium as a lawn 
substitute:

The Lummis Home garden located in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles 
designed by landscape architect Bob Perry.
Walk-on meadow … it's blooming yarrow, Sunset Magazine, 1989
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n5_v183/ai_8065989

Another is at San Marcos Growers in Santa Barbara, I believed designed by 
Randy Baldwin, General Manager or his staff.
http://www.smgrowers.com/gardens/yarrow.asp


Carex species is increasingly being used as a lawn substitute, including Carex 
retroflexa var. texensis at San Marcos Growers:
http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=348

John Greenlee, the grass guru, has many recommendations for lawn substitutes. 
You should definitely contact him for his suggestions. Here's a link to a Los 
Angeles Times article about him:
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/home/la-hm-meadows6oct06,1,4515476.story?coll=la-home-printedition

There are many more examples of lawn substitutes, but this should give you a 
good start.

Good luck,
Jerry Taylor




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>			    MEDIT-PLANTS Digest 3157
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>Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>  1) lawn alternatives - a media opportunity
>	by "Sean A. O'Hara" <sean@gimcw.org>
>
>
>----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: "Sean A. O'Hara" <sean@gimcw.org>
>To: California Native Plants <CA-Natives@calypteanna.com>,
> medit-plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: lawn alternatives - a media opportunity
>
>The Senior Editor of Martha Stewart Living has contacted me while doing
>research regarding gardens that have opted out of the standard lawn but
>retained the open feeling that a lawn provides (I presume they mean
>meadow-like or low-growing mixtures of plants).  If any of you have some
>suggestions regarding gardens or designers here in California, please let
>me know a.s.a.p. as I am planning to summarize and return my own research
>in the next week or two.  It would be especially useful if there were
>web-links connected to your information.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Seán O.
>
>h o r t u l u s _ a p t u s - - - - - 'a garden suited to its purpose'
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