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Landscaping your yard
By Paul Good
Spruce up your yard! One of the best ways to brighten up your back or front yard is to go down the low maintenance route. For those of you with easy maintenance in mind, a soft green carpet of grass and a few slow growing trees will do the trick. Pick some slower growing evergreen trees and then you will not have to get out those pruners and secateurs too often. For the Lawn, it is best to pick some hard wearing, low maintenance grasses. This can best be achieved by mixing the grass seeds. My perfect lawn is one that is slow growing, requires minimum maintenance and can get by with a little water. I.E. is good in drought situations. A good mixture that I would recommend would be 25% creeping red fescue, 20% slender creeping red fescue, 15% smooth stalked meadow grass, 20% hard fescue, 15% chewings fescue and 5% brown top bent. The sowing rate of the mixture should be approx 25 grams per square metre on bare areas and 10 grams per square metre on thinly grassed areas. You could also add some wild flower mix if you so wish. You can then get away with mowing about twice a year. Job done! Sit back in the porch and relax with a nice cold drink! Other things that make a garden stand out are water features, surrounded by flowers and foliage. There is nothing like the sound of running water in the garden to rest and relax the modern mind. You could also create a fish pond with water plants. This in turn will attract all kind of wonderful insects and creatures. Go for something different when planting in the pond. This will surprise folks who are expecting the usual selection of pond plants. Water spider plants and large arum lilies do well in ponds. These contrast nicely with the good old pond standby…. Lily pads! Try to introduce oxygenating plants as well, such as Canadian pondweed. You may have to keep some in reserve in a tub full of water as some fish love to munch on these plants.
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Contributor's Note
The photo is of my fish pond with arum lillies in the background.
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Water features are great and add wonderful tranquility to the area.
Thanks for sharing, Paul.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Your grass details remind me of a time we were working on a wood floor near Cooperstown, NY. We had "book smart" college students helping for the summer. They remarked on how beautiful the greens on the golf course were. The owner of the company without any hesitation told them that is was genetically engineered grass called snap grass. When it got two inches long it snapped off. Much to my amazement the college help believed every word of it until they realized it was a joke.
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