Urban Garden Update

Lawns are the essential part of different types of landscaping They can vary in nature and purpose: sporting, decorative and for special purposes Sports lawns, also known as play lawns are used at stadiums, golf, horse-racing tracks These lawns have high resistance to trampling and quick recovery, as they are composed of a fast growing cereal grass with broad and elastic shoots and also grasses, forming dense sod Typically landscapers are using red fescue and meadow bluegrass Lawns of particular purpose can be found on slopes of roads, railways, dams, airfields Decorative lawns are regularly in the gardens and parks, can be split into some classes, depending on the purpose and the growing herbs Parterre lawns are believed to be the most complex and need exceptional preparations These are the top quality lawns They are great for the spaces around fountains, sculpture compositions and others The combination for such lawns usually contains short grass with thin and soft shoots and leaves It's capable of evenly forming a dense sward from early spring to late fall Generally are utilized the grasses: meadow grass, red fescue, bent Previous to seeding the parterre lawn careful planning of the soil and an increase in land vegetation layer thickness to 30-40 centimeters is desirable It's essential to root all the weeds and level the surface of the ground You should stick to the following rule: the area of main background should prevail over flower gardens' area and further parts of the whole composition If not, it looks like razzle-dazzle and loss of integrity perception You should walk on parterre lawns only when its required, during trimming for example, as it's unable to stand trampling Herbs for such lawns should be selected on account of their capacity to endure adverse conditions, mechanical injury, fractures, trampling They should structure a solid sod, so select herbs with unlike types of bushing out Normally, the same types of grasses that in parterre lawns are used Meadow lawns generally cover up vast areas in the parks, urban parks Frequently these lawns formed on the basis of previously available meadow grass by its renewal The idea of meadow lawns is in the allocation of wonderful natural landscapes and suitable delivery of distant prospect (water, trees, and curtain) The variety of bunch grasses used to form meadow lawns today is larger than ever This includes all types of herbs suggested for parterre and landscape gardening lawns, plus a number of tall-growing grasses and legumes: sheep's fescue, red fescue, meadow grass meadow, Mint Field, white clover, red clover, Siberian planting, bird's foot trefoil and other The herbage of meadow lawns is compound in its composition and texture, intended for least care The use of these lawns is in enhancement of the existed herbage by cultivation and under-sowing of sod grasses