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Index of Subjects Wonderful, Marian. Lawns do not seem very supportive of biodiversity, do they? I wonder when large lawns became a status symbol? I notice several people here in the city have converted their lawns to plantings of native shrubs and plants. There is also a move towards growing kitchen gardens instead of Kentucky Blue Grass. Interesting switch. Cheers, Joan Marian Fulton & Art Harding wrote: > I once had a neighbour come by and ask why the cinch bugs had not attacked > my lawn. I told him because I had more weeds than grass and they did not > like it! I love my weedy lawn; it does not require watering or much work > except for occasional mowing and in my opinion looks just as good as the all > grass lawns that require so much work and noxious chemicals. > > Marian Fulton > Hantsport NS > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] > On Behalf Of iamclar@dal.ca > Sent: 16 June 2007 20:28 > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] Lawn flowers/weeds > > All: > > At present, our regularly mowed, but rather unkempt front lawn boasts > (probably > the neighbours think, suffers from) a range of modest flowers that have > colonized from other parts -- excluding three of our own or nearby garden > escapes. We?ve never used pesticides thereon, or really tried to nourish it > as it should be. These are in unsystematic order, probably not with the > latest > nomenclature: Common Dandelion, Taraxacum officianalis (the only one we > regularly dig up -- fewer than on some neighbouring lawns); Mouse-ear > Chickweed, Cerastium vulgatum; Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans; > Field > Speedwell, Veronica arvense; Corn Speedwell, V. Offiicianalis; Creeping > Buttercup, Rannunculus repans; White Clover, Trifolium repens; Field Mint, > Mentha arvense; Ox-eye Daisy, Crysanthemum vulgare; Mouse-ear Hawkweed, > Hieracium pilosella. > > None of these is at all exciting -- they?re everywhere in the province -- > all > of them are European or Eurasian ?weeds? and some are warned against. We > once had some (native?) Bluet, Houstonia caerulea, but it?s gone -- > out-competed? We like the "weeds" and there will be more to come. We > usually > let patches of them get some growth and flower before mowing them, except > the > Ox-eyes, which we confine to edges. Note that three of them are creepers > (repens, reptans), and their foliage avoids the lawnmower -- (un)natural > selection in action. > > Altogether, more fun than a uniform, well manicured turf. > > Cheers, Ian McLaren > > >
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