RE: California Native Grass Lawns
- Subject: RE: California Native Grass Lawns
- From: Phil Bunch p*@cts.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 05:27:03 -0800
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The grasses you mention below are all a bit taller than what you would
consider lawn material. If you don't mow them you will have more of a
grassland effect with clumps at least a foot high, generally a bit more
when the plants are in bloom. They also tend to be cool season growers and
may be dormant or semi-dormant during warm weather. I don't know how they
would respond to watering during the summer but I'm going to guess that
they may not adapt well to it. I have not tried them in cultivation but see
them frequently in habitat.
Phil Bunch
Lemon Grove, California
32:44:00N 117:01:58W
540 feet (164 meters) amsl
On Sunday, October 27, 2002 16:44, Bracey Tiede [SMTP:tiede@pacbell.net]
wrote:
> We are also removing our lawn and planting natives grasses this winter.
[snip]
> We stopped at Theodore Payne Foundation on the way back from the meeting
in
> Pasadena and picked up three grass seed packets: Nassella cernua,
Nassella
> pulchra, Melica imperfecta. These grasses stay at or below two feet
that
> should survive the occasional human with garden cart rolling over it. We
don't
> have any plans to mow the new 'lawn'. Perhaps we might divide the clumps
every
> couple of years to fill it in.
>
> Any pointers from someone with native grass experience would be most
welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Bracey
>
>
>
