A few blocks up from where we live is this lawn. The grass looks like it’s been attacked by a bunch of moles…but it hasn’t. (We know. We made our friend stop the car once when we were drunk and we danced on it in our bare feet and discovered that the hills are springy, not hollow.) We’ve filed it away to use on our own lawn when we finally buy a house...
Zoysia Tenuifolia, also known as Korean grass, is native to Southeastern and eastern Asia. It’s usually left unmowed for a free-form, natural look. Extremely slow growing, very fine textured, and wiry, the mounds I love so much are a natural product of its growth. We love that it's drought resistant and low maintenance, perfect for both our rain-parched climate and our lazy-bones self.
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Another asian grass to love is japanese forest grass.
http://picasaweb.google.com/JollyRoberts/SRBGardenIdeas/photo#5082375146640063266
http://www.ca.uky.edu/HLA/Dunwell/HakmacAureolaweb.jpg
not sure if you can walk on it but, along with other perennials and shrubs, it has replaced 75% of the grass in my back-yard.
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I know you meant you got out of the car in which you were a passenger, drunk, and danced on it, but at first glance it looks like you were driving drunk. Which is so LA starlet gone wild - so totally appropriate for AT LA!
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Think of all the fuel that could be saved by not having to mow!
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I know you're kidding cakekick, but drunk driving is NEVER appropriate!
view stoat's profile
It's always appropriate, especially on Sundays.
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cakekick, stoat, a ladywhoknows,
i clarified. hopefully you'll find the clarification is still starlet!
best,
abby
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wow, i was just about to re-do my lawn with regular sod but now i want to do it with Zoysia Tenuifolia! it seems like it'd work well in California weather, too bad it's so expensive ($5 a SQ FT!)
kimg, i love that Japanese forest grass is great as well...
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Doesn't it turn brown in winter? Here in Cali I want a lawn that's always green.
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It's non-native and rather invasive. A native ground cover would be a better choice.
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Why are the petits mountains spongy? What did they build them out of? We have a lawn on the side of a mountain that constantly weeps down water, and I can see our back lawn like this with rivers running between the "mountains."
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Too Cool!!!!! Does anyone know if it's safe to plant from an invasive species perspective?
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I see that Charmac already answer that question. ....crap!
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Why does year-round green and artificially maintained lawns have to be the only acceptable front yard? And I'm slightly offended -- we have all kinds of landscaping in our neighborhood an I can assure you it is not "decaying".
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