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Article: Meadow and decks ... easy-maintenance and naturally handsome.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- October 1, 1987
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Meadow and decks . . . easy--maintenance and naturally handsome
A grassy sea laps at the edges of this house in Davis, California. Looking like wind-stirred water, it covers the front and side yards and spreads behind the house like a natural meadow--punctuated with trees, shrubs, and a dry creek bed.
To play up texture, the exotic-looking grass, creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra), is left uncut. A little more than a year old, the fine grass has thin, roundish, foot-long blades. Relatively hardy in both heat and cold (to 20|), it also tolerates more shade than many lawn grasses.
For owners Kim and Tom Chin, the choice of this lawn was a matter ...