While having a beautifully kept and well managed lawn can make a wonderful addition to any home, the practical element of having to mow a lawn once a week and water it throughout the summer months can be too much to handle for many busy homeowners. However, there are some alternative options for people who don’t want to continually have to mow a lawn and with water bans often in action; maintaining a nice lawn isn’t always easy, even for those people who have the spare time to manage one.

There are many ways things that can be done to make lawn care easier, such as organising a reticulation system to be installed and getting professional retic repairs done when there is a problem, as this will save people the hassle of having to water a lawn. But if having a lawn sounds like too much time and hassle, then let’s check out some alternatives:

1. Artificial Turf

Many homeowners are using artificial turf instead of grass nowadays and fake grass isn’t what it used to be back in the 1970s. In fact, if it is done well, it can be hard to tell if a lawn is made from artificial grass and while it is initially more expensive to have it laid; savings are then made on time and money when it comes to on-going watering and fertilising.

2. Rock Gardens

Rather than just using grass and having to install an irrigation controller, it is easy to create rock gardens and here are some of the benefits:

• There’s no need to mow the grass when a garden is made from rocks
• Rocks absorb rain, so any grassy areas nearby will thrive
• They provide a different natural element to a garden
• There is less maintenance work involved such as weeding

3. Grass Painting

Painting the grass green is great in the summer months, when it would otherwise go brown and specialist lawn paint is safe for everyone, from garden birds and pets to children.

4. Go Native

Instead of having a lawn, many homeowners are now encouraging a more native look in their garden by putting in flowers and pot plants rather than grass.

5. Low Maintenance Lawns

For some homeowners, there is simply no substitution for a nice lawn but that doesn’t mean that the lawn has to made from grass that needs regular mowing. Retic repairs and services from TLC Perth can help people to manage any type of natural lawn but instead of using grass, here are some other ways to create a natural lawn:

• Sedge
• Micro-clover
• Creeping red fescue
• White clover

As well as reducing the amount of mowing that needs to be done, there are other benefits to using the above plants to create a lawn, including the fact that they are drought tolerant, pet friendly and that they grow in bad soil making them a great alternative option.