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Even a flower gardener who
chants "down with lawn" will stop and smile at that scent of new
mown hay.
- Janet -
"Lawn" is derived from land, Danish;
lawn, Welsh; lande, French
see What's Coming Up #111
Lawn is essential restful, walkable space in a
landscape.
"Lawn" was defined as 1. An open
space between woods.
Johnson's Dictionary,
1755
see What's
Coming Up #37
Above: Deutzia bushes bloom, but what would they be
without that emerald green foreground?
Green is the colour of life.
- Christopher Lloyd -
...crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it
does scuttle quickly through a lawn.
- Allen
Lacy,
in The Gardener's Eye
and Other Essays
...my attempts at a lawn. Twice have
we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been
sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and
the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has
blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug
ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the
verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.
- Bee Dawson, in A History of
Gardening in New Zealand -
see What's Coming Up #111
Sure, as garden makers we
rip up lots of sod. But as designers we know nothing else sets off
a bed so beautifully as a surrounding of lush lawn.
- Janet -
Winter or summer, lawn provides restful space and
continuity.
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