Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature today’s guest article about what’s behind the trend towards artificial lawns.

The Three Factors Driving the Trend for an Artificial Lawn

More and more homes now have an artificial lawn outside. Every year the trend for them grows, driven by three factors: upkeep, cost, and the environment.

Most commonly cited is the maintenance issue. Any gardener will tell you that a good lawn can be the hardest part of a garden to master. Every month of the year hours of care need to be put into the lawn to keep it looking fresh and green, with more time needed in summer. It isn’t just mowing: grass is a very thirsty plant which needs lots of watering. Lawns are also susceptible to fungi and pests and so gardeners must spend time using pesticides and fungicides to eliminate the problems. And finally, reseeding areas where grass has been worn through frequent usage is time consuming because genuine grass is not as durable as an artificial lawn. Indeed, some gardeners buy patches of artificial lawn to cover only the areas they would have had to spend time reseeding. Read the rest of this entry »

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Susan’s Lawn Gardens is pleased to feature this article from today’s guest author, BRAD SLADE. He is an expert on artificial grass, so we feel very comfortable recommending his work to our visitors.

Fake Grass
By Brad Slade

The history of artificial or fake grass is to say the least an interesting one and arose out of the social desire to in-effect ward off what could be seen, as far back as the 1950s, as an increasingly unhealthy tendency by youngsters not to exercise.

History has it that birth of synthetic grass began through attempts by scientists trying to develop a type of grass that would not only allow children and adolescents to play on regardless of the weather condition but encouraged them to do so, in other words, a surface that they enjoyed using or a user friendly surface. Hence the advent of fake or artificial grass.

The result was one of the early prototypes of what we now know to be fake or artificial grass. The earlier types were not only hard under foot and made for impracticality especially where sports and children were concerned given the tendencies to fall but were very unpopular. Read the rest of this entry »

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