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Cutting Out Mowing Meadows and Lawn Alternatives

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Cutting Out MowingMeadows and Lawn Alternatives

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Why Meadows?• As shared by Jeff Epping, Olbrich Botanical Gardens• Operational Excellence Conference, APGA Symposium 2015

• Lawn Statistics:• 20,000,000 acres are planted in residential lawn• 30-60% of urban fresh water is used to water lawns annually• 67,000,000 lbs of pesticides applied to U.S. lawns• 580,000,000 gals of gas used annually to power

lawnmowers• Homeowners use 10 times more pesticides than farmers

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Interested in cutting down on your mowing?

Here are some great examples of alternatives to Kentucky

bluegrass lawns.

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10% Kentucky bluegrass90% Turf-type tall fescue

Mown, but requires fewer inputs than standard bluegrass lawns.

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Fine fescue blend, unmown

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Prairie dropseed meadow

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Sedge - Carex brizoides

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Creeping lilyturf – Liriope spicata

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Pennsylvania sedge – Carex pensylvanica

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Ivory sedge – Carex eburneaAlong the sides of the flagstone

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Blue sedge – Carex flacca

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Turf-type tall fescue meadow

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Autumn moor grass – Sesleria autumnalis

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Minoan urn fountain gardenSedge mix