Gardening Articles

A healthy, well-maintained lawn is an attractive feature in the garden that also provides a clear area in which to walk, play and relax. In addition to ornamental and utility lawns, grass may be used to cover ground in other areas like sports or games lawns, in wild gardens, for wide paths and gently sloping banks.

After you decide what type and shape your lawn will have as well as where to site it, consider how it will link to the rest of the garden: other plants, features and the overall layout, so that it forms a continuous, unifying part of the design.

Grass is most commonly chosen for a lawn because it is hard-wearing and usually attractive all year, also some broadleaved plants, we can take for example chamomile (chamaemelum nobile) may be used to form lawns; however they should be considered primarily as ornamental, to be admired rather than extensively used, because they are less tolerant of wear than grass.