ALTERNATIVE GARDEN LAWNS - CHAMOMILE LAWN

Chamomile lawns actually pre-date lawns of neatly clipped fine grasses and have a long tradition in English gardens. The most famous chamomile lawn is the one at Buckingham Palace which dates from the reign of George V although they were also very popular with the Elizabethans.
Camomile is a low-growing aromatic herb which is tough enough to be walked on an looks very much like a grass lawn.
Providing you use the low growing flowering variety ‘Trenague’ your lawn will never need mowing and it releases a sweet fragrance when walked on (especially strong fragrance after rain).

Another advantage of a Camomile lawn over a grass lawn is that it does not turn brown in dry weather!

ALTERNATIVE GARDEN LAWNS

Large, expansive lawns can be beautiful if they are well maintained but the cost to the environment can be high.

Fuel for power mowers, fertilisers and pesticides but most importantly water consumption make traditional lawns the resource squanderers of the gardening world.

Reducing the size of your lawn can benefit the environment - and it gives you loads of extra room for plants!

Various groundcover alternatives to grass are being trialed at the moment which we will analyse over the next few months

If you use alternatives to traditional rye grass lawns in your garden, we would love to hear from you...