Re: Lawns
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Lawns
- From: C* P* L*
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:09:23 -0500 (CDT)
> >"Winterize your lawn," the big sign outside the garden store
> >commanded. I've fed it, watered it, mowed it, raked it and watched a
> >lot of it die anyway. Now I'm supposed to winterize it? I hope
> >it's too late. Grass lawns have to be the stupidest thing we've
> >come up with outside of thong swimsuits! We constantly battle
> >dandelions, Queen Anne's lace, thistle, violets, chicory and clover
> >that thrive naturally, so we can grow grass that must be nursed
> >through an annual four-step chemical dependency.
I feel compelled to mention that most of these plants (as the average
gardener knows them) are introduced species from Europe that have
become naturalized here.
'Twould be better to think of goldenrod, asters, liatris, and other
prairie forbs (and grasses).
> >"It's the tribes that settled there, Lord. The Suburbanites. They
> >started calling your flowers 'weeds' and went to great extent to
> >kill them and replace them with grass."
But those species *are* weeds (and so is grass)... :)
Chris (who's feeling argumentative today)
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