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Low-Maintenance Alternatives to Lawns - Fine Gardening

Lilyturf spreads to form a lush, grasslike cover, but it's too lumpy to walk across. Use it in out-of-the-way areas and on steep banks. The most grasslike plant ...

12 Grass Alternatives for a More Sustainable Lawn - Martha Stewart

Benefits of an Alternative Lawn · Types of Alternative Lawns · Gravel Garden · Xeriscape Landscape · Clover Lawn · Ground Cover Plants · Meadow Lawn.

Grass Alternatives: 12 Low-Maintenance Lawn Replacements

Fine fescue is an herbaceous perennial tufted grass that forms a lush green carpet in either full sun or partial shade. It forms a dense sod ...

10 Easy, Low-Maintenance Lawn Alternatives - Elemental Green

Moss spreads quickly until it forms a solid surface, often in just one growing season. To create a moss bed, simply press moss plugs (small pieces of moss with ...

Alternatives to Boring Midwestern Bluegrass and Fescue Lawns

What you replace your exotic turfgrasses with depends on how you use your space. We only intensively use a small area of the back yard, so that ...

Grass alternatives? : r/lawncare - Reddit

There are some improved types of buffalo grasses worth looking at that form better quality turf. ... Now that I seeded a new lawn at a new house I ...

Alternative Lawns | Piedmont Master Gardeners

Most of his trial lawns contain a mixture of over 30 different plant species that can tolerate mowing. Smith calls these “tapestry lawns.” Dr. Smith's research ...

More Sustainable (and Beautiful) Alternatives to a Grass Lawn - NRDC

A growing number of homeowners are converting part or all of their lawns to a less thirsty form of landscape. ... (According to the National ...

Yes, You Can Do Better Than the Great American Lawn

The two ecologically focused horticulturists were looking for a way to talk to visitors about that massive monoculture of European turfgrass ...

Try a Different Lawn with Buffalo Grass - Hoffman Nursery

Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly called Buffalo Grass, spreads quickly by rhizomes to form a dense carpet. Fine-textured, gray-green to blue- ...

Beautiful, No-Mow Alternatives to a Grass Lawn - Real Simple

"Any number of low-growing perennials can stand in for a traditional lawn," says Yost. To choose the right type of ground cover for your area, ...

rethinking the lawn, with ecological horticulturist dan wilder

And there's a lot of different ways to do this, but I think the next transition would be to look at a native lawn alternative. So we're not yet ...

Types of No-Mow Grass Alternatives - Lawn Love

Some types of no-mow grass alternatives include clover, creeping phlox, lamb's ear, Kurapia, moss, stonecrop, and xeriscaping.

A new kind of lawn? | The Peterborough & Area Master Gardeners

Late summer/early fall is an alternative time to plant. The grass should be cut short and raked first to remove any existing thatch. Clover seed ...

Eco-Friendly Lawn Replacement - Dyck Arboretum

The fact is, a nonnative grass monoculture (area of only one species of plant) of bluegrass or fescue is something of a pollinator desert – ...

Top Low-Maintenance Grass Alternatives for Your Backyard

The mosses and thymes, of course, don't even need mowing. Most are not as tough as grass and won't stand up to soccer games, but in areas that don't get a lot ...

Let's Grow Stuff: Replace your lawn with something better, a ...

Throughout the 2023 season of Let's Grow Stuff — our videos and the blog — we'll be following a sustained conversation about lawn conversion ...

Our Lawns Are Killing Us. It's Time to Kick the Habit

Pristine turf grass lawns are as synonymous with America as baseball and apple pie. For those of us who grew up in the suburbs, waking up to ...

10 Types of Grass for Your Lawn - Moving.com

There are quite a few different types of grass blanketing the lawns of today's homes, each with their own textures, maintenance requirements, and benefits.

Exploring Alternatives to Grass Lawns: Scotts Pursue Clover Lawn

At Scotts®, we know that some are in pursuit of a new or different kind of lawn experience. That's why we created Scotts® Pursue™ Clover Lawn, a lower ...