A green lawn is one of the most affordable landscaping decorations for a summer residence. And in order to choose the most suitable lawn, you need to have a detailed understanding of all the available options, their advantages and capabilities.
Parterre
It can be called the “king” of lawns: it is believed that it was created in the Tudor court gardens. A ground lawn is a silky covering of identical shades, thickness and height that requires regular, complex, and expensive maintenance. It is not recommended for children to play on it or have picnics. The purpose of an impeccable English lawn is to serve as a presentable backdrop for other landscape elements: ridges, fountains, trees. And in principle, this is the most unsuitable option for a dacha.
Decorative
A classic found in many city parks and private gardens. It harmoniously combines a decorative appearance and comparative ease of maintenance. Such a lawn quickly recovers after mowing and, depending on its composition, can remain beautiful even in late autumn until it is covered with snow. It is possible to admire it and practically use it, for example, for walking. Common bluegrass, meadow fescue, bentgrass and Siberian wheatgrass are often sown for it.
Sports
This is what can be seen on football fields and tennis courts. The main advantage is resistance to mechanical stress, for example, trampling.But up close, such a lawn is not always picturesque. When arranging a summer cottage or personal plot, it is recommended to choose a sports lawn only for the area allocated for a children's playground.
Decorative and sports lawns can be purchased not only in the form of seeds, but also in roll format, which is a mix of herbs grown industrially on fiber mats. Rolled lawn is a salvation for those who want to make their cottage look great in a day.
Lugovoy
If you want to create the effect of picturesque “desolation” in some corner of the dacha, if you are afraid of the thought of spending time, money and effort on the lawn to the detriment of the efforts in the vegetable garden, orchard and flower garden, you should choose the meadow option. It combines decorativeness and practicality - you can relax on it, play with the dog, and not be afraid to walk. It often contains ground cover plants such as clover, creeping wheatgrass, timothy, as well as bluegrass and ryegrass.
A variety of meadow lawn can be called Moorish, the main difference of which is the abundance of flowering plants and a smaller number of cereal grasses. Marigolds, flax, cornflowers, carnations, snapdragons, snap peas, irises, daisies and bluebells - this is just a miniature part of the set of what may be in it.
A Moorish or meadow lawn, created according to all the rules, needs to be trimmed only 2-3 times per season. Even weeding is not necessary, since the riot of selected plants suppresses them.
To summarize, we can say that when choosing a type of lawn for a summer house and the grasses that form it, it is important to wisely correlate your desires and capabilities.You should plant one that you can fully care for. After all, it is much better for a summer cottage to be decorated with a meadow that is elegant in its simplicity, albeit wild in appearance, than for a neglected emerald carpet that claims to be aristocratic.
