When you look at pictures of houses in any magazine – whether it’s a gardening magazine, a home décor magazine, or even a gossip rag – you always see it surrounded by a beautifully tended lawn. That lawn is a vibrant green, well trimmed and neat, with no patchy brown spots or areas of stunted growth to mar its facade. We can chalk some of that perfection up to photo retouching, of course, but it actually is possible to get a lawn that looks like the lawns in the magazines without the aid of PhotoShop – all you need is the right kind of grass seeds.
The grass seeds used in the lawns you see in your day to day travels are usually not the ones that will get you a lawn like that, though. Grass seeds come in many different varieties, each with its own properties, so while one type may stay a bright green, it might also grow so fast it’s hard to keep it trimmed neatly on a regular basis. Or, if it grows slowly and rarely needs trimmed, you might find that it also causes terrible brown spots all over your yard. So, for obvious reasons, the most commonly used grass seeds are usually not the ones that are going to give you a picture perfect lawn.
