SGLD Guidance Note 003: Lawns
Lawns have been considered a ”green desert” when compared with the ecological communities that can exist within more complex and layered plantings. They have their place and function however, and are infinitely preferable to artificial lawns (see GN 001). The overmanicured, striped, irrigated and obsessively-controlled-with-plenty-of-chemicals lawn is, or should be, a thing of the past (with some sporting exceptions). There are low-input management alternatives that still give us green without huge inputs of time, fossil fuels or
chemicals.