Re: Lawns, was Re: Spring. Yuck!
- Subject: Re: Lawns, was Re: Spring. Yuck!
- From: S* H*
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:13:31 -0400
Slowly, I am turning my lawn into paths between garden beds. The backyard remains
lawn for the use of the dogs, but the front lawn is being transformed.
Steve Hatch
Marshfield, MA
zone 6b
Isabelle Hayes wrote:
> I couldn't agree more with Claire about lawns, and do my best to replace
> grass with ajuga, and violets. Such low growing green plants, which
> flower early in spring and then just stay there all summer, not growing
> taller and needing mowing, are the very things!
>
> Isabelle Hayes
>
> ECPep@aol.com wrote:
> > Have no sympathy for you and the lawn. You English invented the lawn and
> > plagued the rest of the western world with it. I don't like my lawn and
> > don't care one bit about it or it's state of affairs. There would a lot less
> > of it if I operated the big machines that cut it. But since you have
> > convinced all that a garden is not a garden unless framed with a collar of
> > perfect grass, you guys can keep on mowing. The US of A wastes more time,
> > water and fertilizer plus pesticides and herbicides than any country in the
> > world. Someone must like lawns. I think that lawns sap the energy of a
> > gardener and take from him the time he could use truly gardening - get
> > someone else to mow your lawn.
>
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