ABSTRACT
The familiar green, ground-hugging blanket of a typical low-mown grass lawn is achieved by many thousands of uniformly cut leaf blades of lawn-suitable grass species, and if managed appropriately can provide unmatched ground cover as lawns the world over demonstrate. Plants that can survive the direct, repeated, and indiscriminate cutting by a lawn mower also tend to have a strong regenerative capacity; just think of how quickly the lawn daisy is back in flower just days after being mown. The frequency of how often a lawn will be mown will be largely determined by the plants themselves and by the sense of aesthetics. The ornamental daisy in a pot or bedding display will look rather different to the same type daisy growing in a mown and highly competitive tapestry lawn community. A study that looked at the composition of plant types in German lawns found that most of plants were of a type known as ‘hemicryptophytes’.
