{"id":1151,"date":"2022-01-11T01:07:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2022-01-11T01:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:07:32","slug":"limit-the-area-devoted-to-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/gardening\/lawn\/limit-the-area-devoted-to-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Limit the area devoted to grass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawn is fragile and consumes water, fertilizers, and treatment products.&nbsp;Partly replace it with other less demanding plants or turn it into a meadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;It&#8217;s a great classic!&nbsp;<strong>More than 84% of French gardens have at least one small lawn<\/strong>, which still represents an estimated area of \u200b\u200balmost 640,000 ha!&nbsp;It symbolizes nature for many.&nbsp;But the lawn is one of the most&nbsp;water-intensive&nbsp;areas;&nbsp;it often requires inputs of&nbsp;nitrogenous&nbsp;fertilizers&nbsp;and pesticides and encourages the use of a motorized machine emitting CO2 &#8230; the&nbsp;mower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gardener must rather take care to reduce this lawned space, reserved for places of games and idleness.&nbsp;Elsewhere, it will replace it with ground cover plants (&nbsp;ivy,&nbsp;periwinkle,&nbsp;and&nbsp;helxine in the shade; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rustica.fr\/fleurs\/orpin-spectabile-septemberglut-sedum-spectabile-septemberglut,74.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>dwarf&nbsp;sedum,&nbsp;perennial geranium,&nbsp;and&nbsp;dwarf bamboo&nbsp;in the sun), which do not require any maintenance.&nbsp;In the most remote parts of his house, he can even change the grass into a&nbsp;meadow&nbsp;by mowing the grass only once a year, at the end of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawn is fragile and consumes water, fertilizers, and treatment products.&nbsp;Partly replace it with other less demanding plants or turn it into a meadow. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a great classic!&nbsp;More than 84% of French gardens have at least one small lawn, which still represents an estimated area of \u200b\u200balmost 640,000 ha!&nbsp;It symbolizes nature for many.&nbsp;But the lawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}