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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: Grass
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:29:32 EDT
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> 
> Grass is *terrible* stuff, unless you can eat it. It needs mowing,
> watering, de-weeding, etc., or it turns into a real mess. So why on
 
Ayup.  I'd rather have a meadow myself (i.e. grass, wildflowers, about
one foot high) but suburban neighbors are apt to disapprove.  The other
night I heard a suburbanite on the nightly news describing how nice
her neighborhood used to be.  Her example?  "Everybody mowed their lawns."
 
Blecch!
As alternative groundcovers (low-growing), my choices would be:
Corsican mint
Creeping thymes
Camomile
other creeping herbs.    The Elizabethans were fond of planting walking gardens,
with sweet-smelling herbs as paths.
 
Of course, I doubt the Elizabethans played dodge-ball on these gardens!
I don't know of many ground-covers tough enough to withstand gameplaying
except perhaps quack grass.
-- 
Elizabeth Hanes Perry                        
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