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Thyme and Creeping Cinquefoil – 2 more Groundcover Failures
I’ve already covered the ultimate failure of clover as a groundcover in my garden, and now it’s time to dish the dirt on two more plants I’ve tried as lawn replacements and recently ripped out. Yes,...
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Info for Takoma Green House and Garden Tour-Goers
For the story of my lawn removal, including all the plants I’ve tried here – and lots of photos - click here. Below is what the back looked like in May of this year, before the clover killed the...
View ArticleHot Water Topics for Blog Action Day
Over 5,000 bloggers around the world – including one White House blogger – are observing Blog Action Day today by focusing attention on a subject in need of lots more attention – water. It’s hard for...
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Such gorgeous groundcovers, in November
Call me Susie One-Note (or -Plant Group?) but I can’t stop stopping in awe at groundcovers, like these guys that I’m trying out in my front yard. Below, the Creeping Jenny is always pretty, and the...
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Taking the lawn reform message to the land of vast lawns – and not having...
Prairie dropseed at Chanticleer Garden Last night I spoke to a lovely group of garden clubbers in DC’s outer suburbs, and while it was great fun, I was left with the feeling that I’d failed them –...
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Taking Issue with Lawns in Fine Homebuilding Magazine
My article about lawns and water for Fine Homebuilding magazine is now available for free in this handy pdf: “Taking Issue” I love the way they illustrated the text and laid it out, and I even love...
View ArticleGrist video makes the point that big lawns are craaaazy*.
This guy’s great at making the Lawn Reform Coalition’s point. Thanks! Click here to read the 4,500+ comments on YouTube. *Unless they’re needed to play on.
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My garden on the cover of Beautiful No-Mow Yards!
I spotted this familiar image while perusing Timber Press’s latest catalog, and proceeded to shriek and run around like an excited 8-year-old. (Just ask the 60+ other gardenbloggers I was with in...
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Garden Designers Roundtable: Trying out groundcovers as lawn replacements
The Garden Designers Roundtable invited the Lawn Reform Coalition to be their guest blogger(s) this month, combining forces to publish 18 articles about Lawn Replacement on the same day, and linking to...
View ArticleWatch! Espoma’s brutal take-down of Scotts
Over on the SafeLawns blog Paul Tukey calls this ad “ballsy” and says it was the talk of Chicago at the recent Independent Garden Center Show. I bet! I used to like Espoma well enough; now I’m their...
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