Tag Archive | "Lawn Alternatives"
Guest Blog: Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, Part I
AS A PART OF OUR year-long campaign to reduce the impact of the American lawn, we’re launching a new guest blog series with our sponsoring partners at High Country Gardens in New Mexico. Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn is a four-part series by High Country Gardens Founder and Chief Horticulturist, David Salman. Salman also writes [...]
Continue reading...Florida B&B Leads By Example
Monday, January 17, 2011
This article about a bed and breakfast in Florida might provide some inspiration for anyone considering lawn alternatives: http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/home-and-garden/2011-01-15/story/without-pesticides-gardens-avondale-bb-full-natural
Continue reading...Rethinking the College Campus Lawn
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Here’s a great quote from this article in a San Francisco newspaper: “We had succeeded with the old model of landscaping with beautiful manicured lawns and gardens and trees. However, it’s resource intensive. It takes lots of inputs from the outside and at a macro level, some of our urban biology — like birds and [...]
Continue reading...Groundcover Wednesdays: Golden Creeper
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Week 4: Golden Creeper Among the fair criticisms of our national organization is that much of our information is geared for the northern part of the country. As the SafeLawns founder, I have traveled North America extensively, from the Florida Keys, to the Hawaiian Islands and most of the provinces of Canada. But as someone [...]
Continue reading...Florida Couple Leads by the Example of No Lawn
Friday, June 25, 2010
In Florida, where fresh water shortages are chronic, one couple sets an example for others to follow. Now I’m not anti-lawn, mind you. With children around, I consider lawns a necessity for playing ball, croquet or any number of games. But the principles in this article are sound: http://www.beacononlinenews.com/news/daily/2751
Continue reading...Groundcover Wednesdays: Stonecrop ‘Goldmoss’ Sedum
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Week Two: Stonecrop Goldmoss Sedum I remember becoming fascinated with this plant when I visited the grave site of President Kennedy in Arlington, Va., a few years ago. Just before the plant went into bloom, the foliage had a warm, rugged appearance cozied in between the granite stones quarried on Cape Cod. Later that year, when I [...]
Continue reading...Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
With the onset of summer and in honor of beginning our second year of the blog, we’re adding a new feature beginning today: Groundcover Wednesdays. Offered up under the premise that properties shouldn’t be designed with turfgrass alone, these weekly posts will focus on some of the best grass replacement plants, or plants for those [...]
Continue reading...Mow vs. Grow? Edible Flowers are the Clear Winner
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
I mowed my lawn last night. After a long day that included dropping the children off at daycare, registering the car, driving said car 350 miles and then dashing back to the office to answer a few dozen emails, I came home and took out the mower. I like the machine well enough, mind you. [...]
Continue reading...Looking for a Grass Alternative? Try a Peanut Lawn
Monday, May 3, 2010
Still in Florida with my family, I can admit to my blog followers that my mind never completely shuts off from this lawn crusade. When I took my 8-month-old daughter for a walk yesterday in an old neighborhood in St. Petersburg, I was fascinated by a lawn with bright orange-yellow blooms. The homeowner, perched out [...]
Continue reading...Rethinking the Lawn? In California, Yes
Saturday, May 1, 2010
As I sit here in the midst of my father’s Florida golf course community, with identical cookie-cutter lawns and eutrified ponds as far as the eye can see, an evaluation of landscape priorities can be fairly depressing. Dad lives is one of those many, many developed communities where the local bylaws state what kinds of [...]
Continue reading...- Miracle Gro Deal with Wildlife Federation Outrages Environmental Community
- Citing Guilty Plea, Wildlife Federation Ends Agreement with Scotts
- Chemical Industry Convinces Toronto Flower Show to Ban Film
- Former Chemical Applicator: 'I Am Literally Ashamed of Myself for Being Part of It'
- Researcher: Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriages in Cattle, Humans
- Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
- Sometimes, You Just Have to Mow . . .
- Government Agency: We Must Reduce Toxics
- Amidst Wildlife Federation Firestorm, Scotts Miracle Gro Fined $4.5 Million for Toxic Bird Seed, Falsifying Records
- Corn Gluten Meal as Weed Control?: 20 Years Later, the Jury is Still Out
- Ken Mitchell: This is all great, but what can we do about the on...
- Mary Allen: Yeah for ethics! Not everyone is a whore for the ...
- Paul Tukey: Beverly, Send me an email at Paul@SafeLawns.org an...
- Beverly Herran: My partner and i observed your content has a copyr...
- Dianne Laheurte: Congratulations to you and Safelawns, Paul, for sp...
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