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Re: TT: Re: Re: Live Oak & Lawns
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No, I'm not a lawn hater. Note I said I love a patch of lush green grass.
I'm just for more balance in our landscapes, more appreciation for higher
diversity, lower energy input lawns. Viva la clover, la dandelion!
I get a kick out hearing about the normalist suburbanites who get all
twisted out of shape when their neighbors try something different with
their lawn, (anti-lawn?). Life is stranger than fiction!! You hear the
refrain "But it will lower our property values!!" Folks, WE (YOU & I)
determine property values! Not some automatron in the sky. It's up to us to
convey value to landscapes which are more environmentally friendly. That
way all our property values go up.
Value trees and let your neighbors hear about it! But value a nice croquet
quality lawn here and there too! Balance.
At 10:47 PM 1/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shaub Dunkley <sdunkley@mindspring.com>
>To: Community_Forestry <TreeTown@Majordomo.Flora.Com>
>Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 10:09 PM
>Subject: TT: Re: Live Oak & Lawns
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>
>... The suburban lawn as a landscape feature is in
>desperate need of "taste" change. There is an enormous waste of water,
>fertilizer, petroleum, pesticides and other commodities associated with
>the
>maintenance of the "lawn" as we stylize it. In keeping to the core topic
>of
>this listserve, the lawn represents the major land use obstacle to the
>development of forest canopy in our suburban areas. Native trees cannot
>regenerate themselves in areas of maintained lawn. ....
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>YEA! Another lawn hater. Great minds must think alike (hehe) The
>biggest challenge seems to be changing a persons ideas about beauty and
>nature. A forest is beautiful, but not in my front yard, wildflowers
>are beautiful but not in my front yard, etc. I guess I'm too ignorant
>to understand why my front yard can't be a prairie, woodland, forest. I
>don't need a lawn there, yet I keep some grass to prevent a turf war
>(pun intended). Mowing the grass is easy, forest maintenance is not? I
>better get off my soapbox now. :-)
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>Mark W Stephens (markws@one.net) - Cincinnati, OH Zone 5
>http://w3.one.net/~markws - Our Backyard Forest
>http://w3.one.net/~markws/gilmore.html - Gilmore Ponds Conservancy
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Shaub Dunkley
2608 University Dr.
Durham NC 27707-2862
sdunkley@mindspring.com
I like calling North Carolina home!
Hope our children do!
Esse quam videri.
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