The American Lawn
The Lawn is the single largest component to our suburban landscape. In this way, we see the lawn as key to having one of the biggest positive impacts to our local environment. We see a way where we can balance the elements of why we enjoy our lawns with a more nuanced approach in how we maintain them.
From here we can expand upon the idea of the suburban lawn and begin to connect higher ecologically valuable plants with the space.
The Mowable Meadow
The next evolution in lawn care is what we call the mowable meadow. The concept of this service is to pair a more careful and managed lawn care routine with a plant community that incorporates more drought tolerant grasses and perennial wildflowers. The design is an effort to balance the expectations of a suburban lawn while increasing the ecological function, lower maintenance inputs, and increase the flowering display not typically found in our existing lawn spaces.
The Mowable Meadow is:
• Semi Frequent Mowing of lawn areas that are used for play and social activities at tallest functional height.
• Converting unused areas of lawn from frequently mowed to seasonally mowed meadows (1-2 times a season) to allow for increased insect habitat and flowering potential.
• Mowing paths to connect meadow and lawn areas
• Mowing borders around meadow areas to frame meadow pockets and provide visual context that this is an intentional choice and not a sign of neglect.
• Allowing natural flowering species in existing lawn to emerge through lack of mowing
• Expanding meadow areas’ ecologically and aesthetically by installing more flowering species through seeding, transplanting, or combination of both.
The Flowering Lawn
Within the existing lawn space there is still room for great improvement once the standard practice of chemical weed control is removed from its maintenance. The flowering lawn is a great step between the current lawn and the mowable meadow if there are concerns from neighbors or town/HOA height restrictions.
There are a number of plants that will still be able to flower even under somewhat frequent mowing during the season (bi weekly). Cutting taller than typical will allow for more flowers to emerge.
Adjusting the maintenance regime and plants in the lawn can transform the typical sea of green into a bountiful display of color and pollinator food.
OUR SERVICES
Installation Services
• Flowering Lawn: Over-seed and transplant flowering plants into existing lawn for those that want more flowers in their lawn while still being able to mow it regularly
• Mowable Meadow: Overseed & transplant flowering plants into existing lawn with plan to convert to mowable meadow where certain areas are left unmowed for most of season. Increases flowering potential and diversity of flowering lawn.
• Native and Suburban Meadow: reset of lawn in entirety or select areas to install from seed or transplants plants to maximize visual, aesthetic (most flowerful), and ecological (most diverse plant community) impact.
Maintenance Services
• Provide bi monthly maintenance visits to keep lawn and meadow area paths and borders mowed as well as cutting flowering lawns taller to maximize flowering potential.
• Cut back of weeds or undesired plants in meadow areas as part of BI Weekly visits.
• Organic spring fertilizer applications for lawns
• Fall aeration service to bring oxygen and water to lawn roots promoting healthy turf.
SERVICE REQUEST FORM
Please fill out our services request form to bring our Mowable Meadow Service to your landscape.
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