Re Lawns

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• To: f*@hawaii.edu, m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re Lawns
• From: M* B* <f*@ozemail.com.au>
• Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:10:45 +1000
• References: <3.0.3.32.19981002132601.006986f4@popserv.ucop.edu>

At 11:01 AM +1000 2/10/98, Mach T. Fukada wrote:
>How about carpet grass or centepede grass?  They do better in a tropical
>climate, but seem to be OK in upper elevatio areas in Hawaii.  Carpet gras
>tolerates shade really well, but may not be very drought tolerant (in fact
>it is one of the better grasses for wet soggy areas).
Someone really needs to get this whole lawn question sorted.
Books on the subject are very poor.
Very Inadequate information, climatic variables, horticulture, asthetics
ETC, ETC, etc
They often do not even  translate local common names!!
Surely there is a book here for a medit gardener.
A very important aspect of warm climate gardening very sadly neglected.

Michael Bailes.
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