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Garden designer John Greenlee’s love affair with grasses

Posted by: Maven on January 31, 2010 at 8:19 am

meadowFrom the San Diego Union Tribune:

“Plantsman, nursery owner and garden designer John Greenlee first fell in love with meadows as a youngster playing in a field of ear-tickling grass near his Orange County home.

Decades later, the allure of this iconic landscape remains irresistible, “like a seductive mistress,” he writes in his new Timber Press book, “The American Meadow Garden.” “Grasses are sensual. You can smell them and hear them and watch them move. Meadows are sexy, just like lovers — they never stop changing, never ceasing to surprise.”

Starting in the 1980s, Greenlee has spurred a horticultural revolution that has put a growing array of ornamental grasses into nurseries and gardens everywhere. Now he wants homeowners married to “time-consuming, synthetic chemical-sucking” lawns to abandon turf in favor of shimmering meadows alive with grasses and flowers, birds and butterflies. … “

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January 31, 2010 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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