No Grass Landscaping
Garden designer marilyn waterman created her version of a homestead in her menlo park ca yard.
No grass landscaping. Looking for ideas so you can have landscaping without grass or sod. As it needs less water and fertilizers a significant amount can be saved. Creating a perfectly manicured yard is time consuming. Using native grasses that require no mowing and very little water.
A red fuji apple tree blueberries strawberries a meyer lemon tree and herbs. With no mow hard fescue grass it s actually possible. Ferns and lamb s ears are among plantings beyond the gravel pathway. Want to shorten your to do list.
Don t be fooled into thinking that a lawn is the only front yard landscaping idea that makes sense. Running a gas lawn mower for 1 hour emits an equal amount of pollutants as a car does after driving for 100 miles. But to many plastic grass is less comfortable underfoot and monotonous to look at even though technological advances mean the astroturf look synonymous with football pitches is long gone. Todd yeager of bellweather landscape architects created a parterre using low growing plants blue star creeper and dwarf mondo grass for its cotswold style courtyard and garden.
Be the trailblazer on your. Missy madden h. 13 inspiring ideas for a no mow backyard americans love our lawns but let s face it. No mow alternative to grass concrete hardscaping native grasses june scott design via houzz has the perfect lawn replacement idea.
Benefits of no mow grass. Landscape architect walt ray owner of outdoor studio in atlanta used dwarf mondo grass to create the look of a lawn but with minimal maintenance and no mowing. Here are several different eye catching ways to create gorgeous landscaping without grass that s low maintenance too. The terrace garden of an english inspired cottage offers a number of distinctive design ideas.
Waterman tucks in edibles everywhere. Want to mow the lawn only once or twice a year. Make mowing the lawn a thing of past by tearing up your turf and added a large flagstone patio for gathering and entertaining. She also loves water wise succulents and ornamental grasses.
Artificial turf also saves on time and garden storage space with no need to mow there s no need to store a lawnmower. The last remaining strips of lawn can be easily tamed with a push mower in just a few minutes. Five minutes with a leaf blower a quick change of annual color and work here is done. Follow walt s advice on the following slides.