RE: lawns and garden "police"

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: RE: lawns and garden "police"
• From: "* R* <R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au>
• Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 09:04:16 +0800

I know the feeling, my first attempt at lawn free gardening got me cited
by the local council for a health hazard garden! Apparently the local
health inspector thought  I was trying to encourage rats and other
vermin (This was in a small wheatbelt town, bit of a worry when I was
trying to save water and country towns are the most vulnerable to water
restrictions)
I ended up rounduping the whole place to make him happy and started
again with lower flatter less verminous looking plants!! (ie less
scruffy)
The last garden out the front was lots of Dwarf Peppermints (Agonis
flexuosa nana) and a grove of Gleditzia tricanthos with one leopard tree
in the middle (don't know Spp name, but a Tropical spp. with spotted
trunk) and a few other assorted toughies. The grove was shaped on one
side to make a nice alcove to park a car under in summer, the highest
maintenance part in the garden :-)
The street lawn was planted with Callistemon phoenicius and a shrub
Melaleuca sp. both native to the Goldfields (extremely dry, arid
environment) a lovely Eucalyptus erythrocorys (huge red buds as big as a
golf ball with a mass of bright yellow stamens, all over the tree) and
another Euc with scarlet flowers (spp. name eludes me), none of this lot
ever got watered in fact the scarlet flowered Euc got pulled up by some
lout a few weeks after I planted it and lay on the driveway for a day or
two until I noticed it (I said I was lazy).  I replanted it and it never
looked back :-)

Cheers, Rod R

> Hah -- it gets worse. I had a friend who tried that in Mountain View.
> About
> the time the  "sticks" appeared, the neighbors called the fire
> department
> and get her cited for fire hazard weeds in her front yard.
> 
> - and 6 foot high
> mounds of Eriogonum giganteum (St Catherine's Lace).  It makes quite a
> statement!
> 
> Carol
> 
> 
> 

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