Home Lawn Care - Solutions

By Author: Paul Zayer
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Home lawn care is as simple or complex as you make it. Before you decide to put in various colors and varieties of exotic plant life it is important to figure out just how much free time you have to spend taking care of these exotic plants, or if you can pay to have a specialized landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your garden.

Exotic plants are any sort of foliage that is not native to the region and as such will require additional care and supplementary things such as special food, water or lighting settings for it to succeed. So, planting only native plants that are accustomed to fending for themselves, is one way to avoid making lawn care in your home a time consuming task.

Some individuals, myself included, tend to believe even the most basic lawn care a bit 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 my backyard start to look like a jungle.

For people looking for a ...
... way to cut down on even basic lawn care, there's also 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 you may find it worthwhile and even pleasurable to incorporate an herbal lawn if you don't have a lawn yet or have a more fragile category growing.

An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that is composed of an herb instead of a type of grass. You can produce an herbal lawn out of many various types of herbs. The challenge really is finding an herb that tolerates heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are many varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this perfect middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow not as fast as regular grasses and when they are tread or sat upon, they smell simply wonderful. In fact, herbal lawns can be so delightful on a warm summer day that many people erect what's called a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is built by shaping raw earth into a comfortable shape or shapes which are then sowed herb seeds. Plant a variety of herbs for an even greater olfactory thrill. Every movement from your body will release a different herbal perfume.