Home Lawn Care: Keep It Simple

Home lawn care is as simple or complex as you make it. Before deciding to put in varied colors and varieties of exotic plant life it's a good idea to consider just how much weekend time you have to spend on the maintenance of these exotic plants, or in lieu of your own loving care, if you can afford to have a professional landscape team come around to take regular care of your plants.

Exotic plants are any type of foliage that is not native to the area and as such will require additional care and supplementary items such as special food, water or lighting conditions for it to thrive. So, one way to avoid making lawn care in your home a time consuming task is to plant only native plants that are accustomed to fending for themselves, as it were.

Some people, myself included, tend to find even the most basic lawn care a little tedious. Yep, even just lugging out the old lawn mower for a quick clipping can seem very tedious. But then again, I live in a nearly tropical climate where the grass grows so quickly that if I miss a weekly



trimming in the summertime things start to look quite jungly.

For those of us looking for a way to cut down on even basic lawn care, there's always the herbal lawn. True, you may find it more work to get started if you already have a lawn in place, or if the existing lawn is a particularly hardy variety such as St. Augustine or some types of crab grass. But if you don't have a lawn yet or have a more fragile variety growing you may find it worthwhile and even pleasurable to incorporate an herbal lawn.

An herbal lawn is just what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb rather than a type of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many different types of herbs. The challenge really is finding an herb that tolerates heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is not too prickly or woody if you like to sit or play on the lawn. There are various varieties of chamomile and creeping thyme that fall into this perfect middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow more slowly than traditional grasses and smell simply wonderful when they are tread or sat upon. In fact, herbal lawns can be so heavenly on a warm summer day that many people erect what's known as a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is created by shaping raw earth into a comfortable shape or shapes which are then sowed herb seeds. For an even greater olfactory thrill, plant a variety of herbs. Every change in body position will release a different herbal aroma.


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