2007-01-15 23:30:25 · 15 answers · asked by ruth j 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Hello Ruth, that's a great question because there are many types of 'lawn'.Some could be called natural and others artificial, depending on their use and the species of grass used.
For some gardeners the lawn is primarily ornamental, cut to within an inch of its life and all worms killed to stop them casting. This is artificial.
A natural lawn would have a good mixture of hard-wearing grasses such as ryegrass, meadow grass, red fescue and some weeds inbetween (like mine!). I also have an area about 5x4m that I let go wild. This is natural. x
2007-01-16 21:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by Riskyt69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave a lawn for a few months and see what happens, lawns are totally artificial. Actually grassland as we know it also artificial in that its is only by mans intervention, (cows mowing etc) can they be maintained. The main natural state in the UK is of mixed forest, if you look at how scrub land develops you can see how it progresses, even a demolition site over a few years will give you a good Idea
2007-01-16 07:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by pete m 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An informal lawn could be considered an artificial attempt to replicate a natural grazed grassland. A formal, weed-free lawn is completely articifial.
2007-01-16 07:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by GC 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can have both they types. e.g. most of the Lawn Tennis happens on artificial lawn. But most of the Golf and household Lawns are natural.
2007-01-16 07:38:51 · answer #4 · answered by Vikas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost all are artificial, in that they replaced the natural grasses or plants that were there before alien grasses were seeded or sodded. I actually have both-- back yard has fescue under the oak trees, but my front yard, or most of it, is the native grass that was here when my housing addition was put in. Stays just as green as my neigbor's bermuda grass, and I don't have to water it every week and or mow it twice as often like he does.
2007-01-17 17:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in the tall grass prairie....I consider something to be natural if it is native and in it's native environment. This is what I do...prairie restorations. I consider a lawn artificial because it is usually genetically altered grasses and they are kept up with alot of work and chemicals by ppl.......sure doesn't seem to natural to me.
2007-01-17 20:05:25 · answer #6 · answered by anemonecanadensis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is natural, the same way when you smell a flower from a planted garden. You cut the flower from planted garden and you know it is natural (though planted like the lawn) but different from those made of paper or plastic.
2007-01-20 02:28:33 · answer #7 · answered by Ottawan-Canada 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't find lawns in the wild! Only in suburbia. They're totally artificial.
2007-01-16 07:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its actually natural thats why we mow the lawn and water it otherwise if it was artificial there would be no need to do that stuff............its natural
2007-01-16 07:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by nina 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lawn is a manicured natural area.
2007-01-16 10:35:42 · answer #10 · answered by Larz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋