keen eye b here - how ya been? it's been a while, i know. but i'm back, starry-eyed and excited about landscaping and gardening. much like keen eye e, the spring and summer take me outside where i dig in the dirt and worship the foliage (and shriek every time i see a spider!).
also, much like keen eye e, i've recently begun to rework my own plot of land. it's smack dab in the center of my southern city, but it's not city-sized. it's an enormous swath of land. and, in true american fashion, almost every inch of the 7100 square feet is covered in grass.
s i g h .
and, in true american fashion, i roll out the gas-guzzling lawn mower every other saturday morning (i should mow every week, but i just can't bear it!), and shear the tops off each little bad of grass and curse the fool who planted them. (this is no small feat - my yard is nothing if not a miniature mountain range.)
while mowing, i dream of drought-tolerant ground covers in need of little-to-no mowing. i envision my vast expanse of land covered in mounds of fragrant, foot traffic-tolerant perennials. these dreams led me to find stepables - a company that specializes in providing just this type of solution to grass-weary gardeners.
here are a few of my favorite of their drought-tolerant offerings:
wooly thyme - lovely with its tightly matted foliage and lavender flowers.
creeping thyme (white) - looks like a light dusting of snow in the middle of summer!
lotus plenus - this is perfect as a lawn substitute, and glows with lovely orange buds and yellow double blooms! and, it's suited to clay-bound soils, like mine!
so, if you're grass-weary like me, and in the market to green up your lawn (in that environmentally conscious sense of the word), check out stepables for some garden guidance and plant therapy.
Friday, May 18, 2007
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Yeah, creeping thyme for me. We have the grass problem. But we also seem to be just coming out of (touch wood) a long drought, so it's a period of adjustment. There are supposedly grasses very specific to our area (historically - I only know this because I have spoken to someone who works for a local government area who came and harvested our grass seeds for his landscaping activities in a place about 10 miles east, so I guess it's less unique than it was) but I don't think they're that hardy. Grass is Ok though - it's lawn that is crap. I think.
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