Re: Lawns
- Subject: Re: Lawns
- From: D* M*
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:58:55 -0600
>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
Below is a link to a photo of the only remnant of lawn that I have,
actually a piece of city-owned land between my sidewalk and the
street. I don't know why the city didn't place the walk right next
to the street and give us a bit more land on the house side of the
walk.
I've been agonizing for years about what to do with this. Brick it
in? (work, expense, permission from city) Plant with perennials?
(there's no parking along this side, but it's a dead end street and
used as playground by local kids - also would be exposed to street
salting in winter).
One thought I had was to lay sod this fall, but before putting down
the sod, fill the area liberally with crocus. I could afford to
leave this strip unmowed until the foliage of the bulbs ripens, then
just keep it mowed for the rest of the summer. I'd have some early
spring color, but not have to worry about things being trampled in
the warmer weather.
Does this sound as if it would be successful?
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com
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