{"id":638,"date":"2010-03-08T00:26:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-03-08T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:31:29","slug":"landscaping-and-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2010\/03\/08\/landscaping-and-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscaping and lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be another post on landscaping coming shortly, but does anyone have any experience using evergreen &#8220;ground cover&#8221; as a lawn replacement? We were thinking about just sodding some lawn in initially, but this weekend, we saw some interesting stuff called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepables.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stepables<\/a> which is essentially a collection of evergreen plants you can use in lieu of grass. The stuff apparently only grows 1 or 2 inches tall, never needs mowing, and can be trampled on almost as vigorously as a traditional lawn.<\/p>\n<p>My feeling about lawns is that they are only as nice as the time you&#8217;re willing to put into them, and I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m willing to put a ton of time in. Evergreen ground cover seems like a really attractive option, although I can&#8217;t say I know anyone personally who&#8217;s tried it yet. It doesn&#8217;t seem to look quite as good as a nicely mowed lawn, but I&#8217;d settle for decent looking if it meant zero maintenance&#8230; especially if I could walk on it to release an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepables.com\/store\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=78\" target=\"_blank\">awesome minty fresh scent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stepables.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"framed\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">This stuff is called &#8220;Blue Star Creeper&#8221;. Sounds smokable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be another post on landscaping coming shortly, but does anyone have any experience using evergreen &#8220;ground cover&#8221; as a lawn replacement? We were thinking about just sodding some lawn in initially, but this weekend, we saw some interesting stuff called Stepables which is essentially a collection of evergreen plants you can use in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}