{"id":3516,"date":"2012-09-25T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:34:44","slug":"alternative-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/alternative-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lush, well manicured, green lawn is most people&#8217;s idea of the perfect lawn but if you are looking for something a little easier to maintain or just fancy something a bit different then why not sow a wildflower or chamomile lawn?<\/p>\n<p>Creating a colourful wildflower area in your garden is extremely easy and your garden will soon become a natural haven for beneficial insects as well as various species of butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3519\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"poppy\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poppy.jpg\" alt=\"poppy\" width=\"274\" height=\"183\" \/>Wildflower Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wildflower lawn is just a patch of grass that isn&#8217;t cut as short as usual and where you encourage low-growing wild flowers, such as primroses, violets and cowslips.<\/p>\n<p>Some people also like to encourage some lawn weeds.<\/p>\n<p>A wildflower meadow is wonderful in summer and attracts butterflies and bees. You can either let the wild flowers come up naturally, and weed out the ones you don&#8217;t want, or you can plant the wild flowers of your choice into the turf in spring, they will self-seed once they are established.<\/p>\n<p>A wildflower lawn doesn&#8217;t need feeding but it will need cutting a couple of times a year in early spring and autumn.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3518 alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 20px;\" title=\"clover\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/clover.jpg\" alt=\"clover\" width=\"180\" height=\"238\" \/>Clover Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White clover (Trifoliurn repens) makes a very good &#8216;lawn&#8217;. Sow it in the same way as a normal grass lawn, using clover seeds that you can buy from specialist seed firms.<\/p>\n<p>Clover stays green in dry weather and it grows to only about 5-8cm (2-3in), so it doesn&#8217;t need regular mowing. Clover is a mass of flower in summer and very attractive to bees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3517\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"chamomile\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/chamomile.jpg\" alt=\"chamomile\" width=\"248\" height=\"165\" \/>Flower Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The classic flower lawn is chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile &#8216;Treneague&#8217;). You can also grow a lawn of creeping thymes; a mixture of mat\u00adforming alpines; or one of the flowering chamomiles, such Chamaemelum nobile `Flore Pleno&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Flowering lawns don&#8217;t need mowing; just a clip over after flowering, but they have to be weeded by hand so you may not want a large area. The types of plants used in flowering lawns need a sunny spot with excellent drainage so dig plenty of grit or gravel into the area before planting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lush, well manicured, green lawn is most people&#8217;s idea of the perfect lawn but if you are looking for something a little easier to maintain or just fancy something a bit different then why not sow a wildflower or chamomile lawn? Creating a colourful wildflower area in your garden is extremely easy and your garden will soon become a natural haven for beneficial insects as well as various species of butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3425],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lawns-gardening-articles","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15727,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}