Lawn Care Tips For Different Types Of Lawns

Lawns are the necessary part of various types of landscaping. They can be different in nature and purpose: sporting, decorative and for special purposes.

Sports lawns, or play lawns are used at stadiums, golf, horse-racing tracks. Such lawns have high resistance to trampling and rapid recovery, as they consist of a fast growing cereal grass with broad and elastic shoots and also grasses, forming dense sod. Usually are used red fescue and meadow bluegrass.

 

Lawns of special purpose can be found on slopes of roads, railways, dams, airfields.

 

Decorative lawns are mostly in the gardens and parks, can be divided into several classes, depending on the destination and the growing herbs.

 

Parterre lawns considered to be the most complex and require special preparations. This is the highest quality lawns. They are responsible for the spaces around fountains, sculpture compositions etc. The mixture for such lawns typically consists of undersized grass with thin and soft shoots and leaves. It’s capable of evenly forming a dense sward from early spring to late fall. Usually are used the grasses: meadow grass, red fescue, bent.

 

They are well cluster and form a thick, velvety grass cover. Before seeding the parterre lawn meticulous planning of the soil and an increase in land vegetation layer thickness to 30-40 centimeters is needed. It’s necessary to root all the weeds and level the surface of the ground. You must adhere to the rule – the area of main background should prevail over flower gardens’ area and other parts of the composition. Otherwise, it looks like razzle-dazzle, fragmentation and loss of integrity perception. You should walk on parterre lawns only when it’s necessary, during trimming for instance, as it’s unable to stand trampling.

 

Some other requirements must be for landscape gardening lawns. Herbs for such lawns should be chosen on the basis of their ability to withstand adverse conditions, mechanical injury, fractures, trampling. They should form a solid sod, so pick herbs with different types of bushing out. Typically, the same types of grasses that in parterre lawns are used. Depending on soil conditions, other herbs such as: forest species, sheep's fescue and others can be used.

 Meadow lawns usually cover vast areas in the parks, urban parks. Often these lawns formed on the basis of already available meadow grass by its reconstruction. The purpose of meadow lawns is in the allocation of breathtaking natural landscapes and convenient delivery of distant prospect (water, trees, curtain).

 The assortment of bunch grasses used to create meadow lawns is larger and more varied than ever. This includes all types of herbs recommended for parterre and landscape gardening lawns, as well as a number of tall-growing grasses and legumes: sheep's fescue, red fescue, meadow grass meadow, Mint Field, white clover, red clover, Siberian planting, bird's foot trefoil and other. The herbage of meadow lawns is complex in it’s composition and texture, designed for minimum care. The purpose of these lawns is in improvement of the existed herbage by cultivation and undersowing of sod grasses.

 Moorish lawns are also called eastern, Arabian, Japanese lawns. These picturesque lawns are created in absolutely open, sunny, large areas of space. Moorish lawns often created on the banks of man-made ponds in the area close to the natural landscape. They are a mixture turf-forming undersized cereals and beautiful flowering plants. It may consist of one or more types of low or medium-high, long-term flowering plants. Such grass is mowed only once during the growing season after the phase of mass blooms. You can use annual or perennial flowers, for creating an additional long-term decorative effect. Often are use different types of Forget-me-not forestry, Pyrethrum pink, red clover, poppies, cornflower, leaves, calendula, linen, etc.