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By: Paul Zayer

Home lawn care is as complex or simple as you make it. Before deciding to put in various varieties and colors of exotic plant life it is important to figure out just how much weekend time you have to spend on the maintenance of these exotic plants, or if you can pay to have a professional landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Exotic plants are any type of foliage that is not native to the area and that means it will need more care and supplementary things such as special food, water or lighting settings for it to bloom. So, planting only native plants that are used to fending for themselves, is one way to avoid making lawn care in your home a time consuming task.

Some individuals, like myself, tend to believe even the most basic lawn care a bit boring. Yep, even just taking out the old lawn mower for a quick clipping can appear very boring. But then again, I reside in an almost tropical climate where the grass grows so quickly that if I don't trim every week in the summertime my backyard start to look like a jungle.

There is always the herbal lawn for those of us looking 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 rather than a kind of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many various types of herbs. The challenge really is to find an herb that tolerates heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are many varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this ideal middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow not as fast as regular grasses and smell simply wonderful when they are tread or sat upon. In fact, herbal lawns can be so wonderful on a nice summer day that a lot of people erect what's called a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is created by shaping raw earth into a comfortable 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 fragrance.

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