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Home lawn care could be as simple or complex as you make it. Before deciding to put in different varieties and colors of exotic plants it is important to consider just how much free time you have to spend on the maintenance of these out of ordinary plants, or if you can afford to have a specialized landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Any kind of foliage that is not native to the area is called exotic plant and that means it will need additional care and supplementary things such as special food, water or lighting settings for it to bloom. So, one way to prevent from making lawn care in your home a time consuming task is to plant only native plants that are accustomed to fending for themselves, as it were.

Some people, myself included, tend to believe even the most basic lawn care a bit boring. Yep, even just taking out the old lawn mower for a short clipping session can appear very boring. But then again, I reside in a nearly tropical climate where the grass grows so fast that if I don't trim every week in the summertime my frontyard begin to look like a jungle.

There is always the herbal lawn for people who look for a way to cut down on even basic lawn care. True, you may find it more work to get started if you already have a lawn in place, or if the existing lawn is for the most part a hardy variety such as St. Augustine or some types of crab grass. But if you don't have a lawn yet or have a more delicate variety growing you may find it worthwhile and even agreeable to incorporate an herbal lawn.

An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb instead of a type of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many different kinds of herbs. The challenge really is finding an herb that can handle heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is not too prickly or woody if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are many varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this perfect middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow more slowly than traditional grasses and smell simply wonderful when they are tread or sat upon. In fact, herbal lawns can be so heavenly on a nice summer day that a lot of people erect what's known as a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is fabricated by shaping raw earth into a comfy shape or shapes which are then sowed herb seeds. Plant a variety of herbs for an even greater olfactory thrill. Every change in body position will release a different herbal perfume.

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