Home Lawn Care - Advice

Home lawn care could be as complex or simple as you make it. Before you decide to put in different varieties and colors of exotic plants it's a good idea to figure out just how much free time you could spend on the maintenance of these special plants, or if you can afford to hire a specialized landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Any kind of foliage that is not native to the area is called exotic plant and that means it will need additional care and supplementary items such as special food, water or lighting conditions 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 people, like myself, tend to find even the most basic lawn care a bit tedious. Yep, even just lugging out the old lawn mower for a short clipping session can appear very tedious. But then again, I live in a nearly tropical climate where the grass grows so fast that if I don't trim every week in the summertime my frontyard begin to look like a jungle.

For those of us looking for a way to cut down on even basic lawn care, there's always the herbal lawn. True, if you already have a lawn in place, or if the existing lawn is for the most part a hardy variety such as St. Augustine or some kinds of crab grass, you may find it more work to get started. 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 is composed of an herb rather than a kind of grass. You can create an herbal lawn out of many different types of herbs. The challenge really is to find 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 many varieties of chamomile and creeping thyme that fall into this perfect middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow more slowly than regular grasses and smell simply wonderful when they are tread or sat upon. In fact, herbal lawns can be so delightful on a warm summer day that a lot of people erect what's known as a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is built by shaping raw earth into a comfy 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 perfume.