As a gardener and a garden designer and an environmentalist, I am often in the position of trying to get folks to reduce the size of their lawn and replace lawn with gardens. But in a recent conversation with someone even more committed than I to taking up the lawn I realized that I would not want to have no lawn. Grass is actually an amazing plant, no other ground cover can compare for rapidity of growth, coverage, comfort, and relative ease of care. And, yes, if cared for properly, a lawn can be environmentally sound. Nothing frames a garden better, nothing is more fun to walk on barefoot, nothing else let’s you play croquet on it, nothing else is better to lie down on for one of those glorious outdoor naps. In fact, there is nothing quite like grass.
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