July 21st, 2010 by admin

Great Reasons To Choose Artificial Turf For Your Landscaping

If you’ve got a more unusual landscape gardening project on your hands, you may need a more unusual material to work with. Rooftop gardens, swimming pools, and soil-less spaces for example can still look good and most importantly, green. Artificial grass turf has in recent years become a viable option for such projects, after experiences a mini renaissance period where it underwent massive redesign. Artificial turf in its original incarnation was, well, nasty. It looked like plastic, felt like plastic, and if you fell on it, gave you carpet burns. So, artificial turf sounds great huh? Well, the new stuff certainly does, its leaps forward in terms of similarity to natural grass has been spurred on by the sports industry. Many sports associations saw artificial grass turf as a viable alternative to grass when it was first introduced; they soon found however that playing on this surface was a little tricky to say the least. The potential benefits were still clear though, less maintenance, playable all year round and potentially better visually too. These associations worked with manufacturers to redesign artifical turf, making it more grass like, both in looks and behavior, meaning budding landscape gardeners such as yourself, can now reap the benefits of this versatile medium. Artifical turf can handle water logging from pools, needs no soil and can be installed on roofs and other ‘abnormal’ garden spaces that grass simply can’t accommodate.

So, first off, what’s different? Well, for one thing, artificial grass turf is now generally bedded on rubber grains, making a more soil like springy surface, so it won’t feel like a rough carpet on floor boards anymore. It has laminated blades of grass, designed to have a similar feel to grass, mixed with rubber coils, to allow more grip, this is definitely a plus point if you’re thinking of using artificial turf on your roof garden. Artifical turf still carries the same benefits as it did previously, having a longer life span than turf under heavy usage and needing much much less maintenance.

The cost of artificial grass turf may seem to be higher than that of natural turf, but this only applies to installation. If you take into account the cost of a mower, weed killers, lawn feed, pesticides and the hours of maintenance, then artificial turf compares quite favorably. Plus, this reduced m
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aintenance means you can spend more of your time enjoying your garden area, rather than working in it. Of course there are still some drawbacks, the smell of freshly cut grass for example is obviously not going to be provided by artificial turf, though even this could be a good thing if you suffer from hayfever.

Many people suffer an aversion to the idea of artificial grass turf, remembering the older form they will have seen at some point, granted this material did not stir up images of grand garden design and Eden-like paradise, but its descendent is much more fit for task. Artificial turf is robust and versatile, allowing your imagination to rule your design much more than with grass. Check out some retailers to have an idea of what artifical turf is like at present, and see if it might just be the missing piece for your project.

By: Jacks Turf

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