{"id":206,"date":"2009-07-10T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-01-29T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T07:09:14","slug":"sunset-magazine-article-synthetic-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/sunset-magazine-article-synthetic-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Magazine Article- Synthetic Turf"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a good article and overview in this month’s Sunset Magazine<\/a> about synthetic turf and the pros and cons of the material versus natural lawn and other alternatives.<\/p>\n

The author’s experience in a xeriscaped garden with synthetic turf reveals something that more and more people are realizing, synthetic turf has come a long way from Astroturf:<\/p>\n

Then we went to a party at the house of a landscape designer who watered, she said, for only eight minutes a week, and did her own gardening, with no mowing. This was real xeriscaping: She had succulents, and drought-tolerant trees, and pink-flowering cactus, and
\nMexican beach pebbles \u2015 and two stunning green rectangles of perfect lawn in the back. “The grass,” another guest whispered to me. “It’s not real.” <\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s not?” I asked. It looked gorgeously real.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Touch it,” she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

I did, and it was true: The grass was fake.<\/em><\/p>\n

It wasn’t Astroturf, exactly, but long, smooth blades of grass that looked exactly like real grass but happened to be plastic. \u00a0It had been laid down like a carpet, over prepared ground. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What we are seeing in the landscapes where we use synthetic turf is that it is a great hybrid material. It has the properties of both a hard and a soft surface, with the maintenance requirements more like a patio space that needs to be hosed down occasionally, with a feel and utility like a natural sod lawn. Yes there are trade offs with the material, but given the current water crisis in California synthetic turf makes more and more sense in a variety of applications.<\/p>\n

For More:
\nVisit Sunset’s Section on Kicking the Water Habit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a good article and overview in this month’s Sunset Magazine about synthetic turf and the pros and cons of the material versus natural lawn and other alternatives. The author’s experience in a xeriscaped garden with synthetic turf reveals something that more and more people are realizing, synthetic turf has come a long way … Continue reading Sunset Magazine Article- Synthetic Turf<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,24],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}