Lawn Care
A ground cover of more than one color and texture can add dimension to your lawn. Contrast Marathon II with Silver Carpet, for example. There are so many beautiful ways to use plant material in your landscaping. The variety of green material–as in literally the color green–is tremendous and can be used creatively to build a garden with depth and loads of personality. This starts with the grass. Using more than one grass ... Read the rest of this story
In a recent TV commercial for a product called “Patch Perfect,” the ad describes the product as “grass seed in a cocoon of mulch.” It is prodded as the answer to re-seeding brown spots or hard to grow areas of your yard–like shaded areas. They show the grass seed growing anywhere once you add water–even on cinderblocks. This is not an endorsement of the product, but the packaging is genius. It’s a bag with holes on the ... Read the rest of this story
My cousin who lives in Colorado told me once how irritated she was with the deer that ate her flowers and grass. I marveled about having a deer so close to her yard, but she was over that. Recently, my sister who lives in south Orange County, California, complained that bunnies were eating her grass. Again, I was excited thinking about cute little creatures roaming around in my own backyard, but she was beyond measuring “cute.” Besides the ... Read the rest of this story
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