Once, I would have been horrified at the idea of using fake lawn, artificial flowers or hypertufa anything in the garden. “If you can’t grow it, give it up,” I might have said. But that was before I learned gardens can have a mixture of live, dead and languishing things at any one time.
Great pretenders!
Sometimes, there are areas of the garden that defy all efforts at beautifying, greening or even just staying alive. Our terrace lawn is a case in point. Over time, it’s been unsuccessfully planted with carex, day lilies, grass and more grass, and covered in lime chip and shells. Now, our latest effort – ready-lawn – has developed something called red thread fungus. Next step – artificial turf. And I’m okay with that.
Faux garden…
