Towards a lawn without grass: the journey of the imperfect lawn and its analogues

Smith, L. S. and Fellowes, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-8637 (2013) Towards a lawn without grass: the journey of the imperfect lawn and its analogues. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 33 (3). pp. 157-169. ISSN 1943-2186 doi: 10.1080/14601176.2013.799314

Abstract/Summary

In much of the English-speaking world the lawn is the most common of all garden features. For arguably a millennium it has played a significant role in the landscape and during that period it has been inextricably linked with grasses. Nevertheless other plant species have accompanied the grasses and also been used in creating lawns. From medieval wildflowers to Victorian weeds, the plants that challenge the formal concept of the perfect lawn have journeyed with it but have until recently remained only small players within the dominion of grass. By the beginning of the 21st century, with a new environmental ethos permeating the garden, the long journey of the grassy lawn and its plant companions has led to the grass monoculture being heretically rethought: by removing both the monoculture and the grass.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/32675
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/14601176.2013.799314
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
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