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Home lawn care could be as simple or complex as you make it. Before you decide to put in different varieties and colors of exotic plants it's a good idea to consider just how much free time you have to spend on the maintenance of these out of ordinary plants, or if you can afford to have a professional landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your garden. Exotic plants are any kind of foliage that is not native to the region and as such will need more care and supplementary things such as special food, water or lighting settings for it to bloom. So, one way to avoid making lawn care in your home a time consuming task is to plant only native plants that are used to fending for themselves, as it were. Some individuals, myself included, tend to find even the most basic lawn care a bit boring. Yep, even just lugging out the old lawn mower for a short clipping session can appear very boring. But then again, I reside in a nearly tropical climate where the lawn grows so quickly that if I don't trim every week in the summertime things begin to look like a jungle. For those of us looking for a way to cut down on even basic lawn care, there's always the herbal lawn. True, if you already have a lawn in place, or if the existing lawn is for the most part a hardy variety such as St. Augustine or some kinds of crab grass, you may find it more work to get started. But you may find it worthwhile and even pleasurable to integrate an herbal lawn if you don't have a lawn yet or have a more fragile variety growing. An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb instead of a type of grass. You can create an herbal lawn out of many different types of herbs. The challenge really is to find an herb that can handle heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are different varieties of chamomile and creeping thyme that fall into this ideal middles ground. Herbal lawns grow more slowly than regular grasses and when they are tread or sat upon, they smell simply wonderful. In fact, herbal lawns can be so heavenly on a nice summer day that many persons erect what's called a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is built by shaping raw earth into a comfortable shape or shapes which are then sowed herb seeds. For an even greater olfactory thrill, plant a variety of herbs. Every movement from your body will release a different herbal perfume.
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