cutting out mowing
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Cutting Out MowingMeadows and Lawn Alternatives
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
Interested in cutting down on your mowing?
Here are some great examples of alternatives to Kentucky
bluegrass lawns.
10% Kentucky bluegrass90% Turf-type tall fescue
Mown, but requires fewer inputs than standard bluegrass lawns.
Fine fescue blend, unmown
Prairie dropseed meadow
Sedge - Carex brizoides
Creeping lilyturf – Liriope spicata
Pennsylvania sedge – Carex pensylvanica
Ivory sedge – Carex eburneaAlong the sides of the flagstone
Blue sedge – Carex flacca
Turf-type tall fescue meadow
Autumn moor grass – Sesleria autumnalis
Minoan urn fountain gardenSedge mix