The Working Lawn

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June/July 2001
By John Vivian  
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A stormwater marsh can be dug in a snap and can protect the property from flood damage. Jo-pye weed, lobelia, cardinal flower and other wild plants attract birds and butterflies. Native trees and shrubs just might restore your faith in what a lawn is supposed to be.

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DRY LAND LAWNS AND ORNAMENTALS

Xeriscape Plant Guide by Denver Water (Fulcrum Publishing, 1998). A reasonably priced (under $25), fullcolor guide to water-stingy plants that are good for any temperate climate. This highly recommendable guide contains no fluff or imported exotics, but makes the most of common shrubs such as spirea, native trees such as staghorn sumac, catalpa and maples, as well as little-known natives like Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bearberry or Kinnikinnick-Indian ceremonial tobacco - a trailing, gloss-leafed, evergreen, shade-loving groundcover that thrives in poor soil and tree shade (we've transplanted it from the wild, but never seen it so much as mentioned in other landscaping books). Fulcrum also publishes a general xeriscaping handbook and a brand-new xeriscaping color guide.

www.xeriscape.org/history.html
www.denver.water.co.gov/conservation/xeriscape/html

MOWER SAFETY INFORMATION

www.outreach.missouri.edu/newfront/summer/lawnmowing.html

www.shriners.com/Prevention/lawnmowerform.html

For a free printed copy of the Shriner's popular Lawnmower Safety Brochure , write:

Public Relations Department at International Shrine Headquarters
2900 Rocky Point Drive
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 281-8162

 GREEN MOWERS

www.cleanairmowing.com sells a variety of hand-powered mowers and other petroleum-free lawn tools.

CleanAir Mowing
5200 Martel Ave #6Q
Dallas, TX 75206
Questions: (214) 370-0530
Orders: (888) 4399101

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