ABSTRACT
Swathes of the human world are covered in ornamental grass lawns; they are the single most commonly encountered horticultural feature on the planet. Unfortunately, they are now often viewed as resource-draining green deserts due to the lack of plant and animal diversity, the need for frequent mowing and watering, and addition of lawn greening products to keep them looking at their best. It is a venerable horticultural feature that is essentially frozen in time, and with few alternatives to whet the appetite, the lawn has languished in its current grass-only format for decades. Until now.
Tapestry lawns are a new, practically researched and timely development of the ornamental lawn format that integrates both horticultural practice and ecological science and re-determines the potential of a lawn. Mown barely a handful of times a year and with no need for fertilisers or scarifying, tapestry lawns are substantially richer in their diversity of plant and animal life compared to traditional grass-only lawns and see the return of flowers and colour to a format from which they are usually purposefully excluded.
Tapestry Lawns: Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers traces the changes in the lawn format from its origins to the modern day and offers information on how and why the tapestry lawn construct is now achievable. It provides guidance on how to create and maintain a tapestry lawn of your own and champions the potential benefits for wildlife that can follow.
Features
- Accessible and informative to all types of readers from academic to amateur
- Includes a refined and tested set of useful tapestry lawn plants
- Contains step-by-step instructions for creation and management methods of grass-free lawns
- Illustrated in full colour
If you have ever thought about mowing your lawn much less, making it much more colourful and wildlife friendly, then this book will inform and guide you to create a perfect, grass-free lawn.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |2 pages
Acaena inermis Hook.f.
entry |3 pages
Achillea millefolium L.
entry |4 pages
Ajuga reptans L.
entry |3 pages
Argentina anserina (L.) Rydb.
entry |5 pages
Bellis perennis L.
entry |3 pages
Campanula rotundifolia L.
entry |3 pages
Chamaemelum nobile (L.) All.
entry |2 pages
Dianthus deltoides L.
entry |3 pages
Glechoma hederacea L.
entry |2 pages
Leptinella dioica Hook.f.
entry |2 pages
Lobelia angulata G. Forst.
entry |3 pages
Lobelia pedunculata R.Br.
entry |3 pages
Lotus corniculatus L.
entry |3 pages
Lysimachia nummularia L.
entry |2 pages
Mazus reptans N.E.Br.
entry |3 pages
Mentha pulegium L.
entry |3 pages
Parochetus communis D. Don
entry |3 pages
Pilosella aurantiaca (L.) F.W. Schultz & Sch. Bip.
entry |3 pages
Pilosella officinarum F.W. Schultz & Sch. Bip.
entry |2 pages
Potentilla reptans L.
entry |3 pages
Primula vulgaris Huds.
entry |4 pages
Prunella vulgaris L.
entry |5 pages
Ranunculus repens L.
entry |2 pages
Stellaria graminea L.
entry |3 pages
Thymus praecox Opiz.
entry |3 pages
Trifolium pratense L.
entry |6 pages
Trifolium repens L.
entry |3 pages
Veronica chamaedrys L.
entry |3 pages
Veronica officinalis L.
entry |2 pages
Viola banksii K.R. Thiele & Prober
entry |3 pages
Viola odorata L.