The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the " land ethic " that is to determine urban land use and whether hyper hygienist bylaws ( e. g. weed control ) should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state.

This family also includes cotton-grass ( Eriophorum ), spike-rush ( Eleocharis ), sawgrass ( Cladium ), nutsedge or nutgrass ( Cyperus rotundus, a common lawn weed ), the large genus of Carex, and white star sedge ( Rhynchospora colorata ).

The lawn in front has turned into an unkept weed field that together with the sign on the front porch " Private Keep Out " blights this part of Lamlash's seafront.

A lawn is an area of aesthetic and recreational land planted with grasses or other durable plants and can be defined by four characteristics: It is composed only of grass species ; it is subject to weed and pest control ; it is subject to practices aimed at maintaining its green color ; and it is regularly mowed to ensure an acceptable length.

It will form dense mats which can take over areas of lawn, and thus can be considered potentially invasive or aggressive weed.

Most are native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but Prunella vulgaris ( the Common Self-heal ) is Holarctic in distribution, occurring in North America as well, and is a common lawn weed.

As such, if infested in a home lawn, it can become a troublesome weed problem.

These wild trout are threatened by increased residential use of lawn fertilizer which contributes to algae and weed growth.

Biological control is preferable over toxin use on lawns as crabgrass emergence is not the cause of poor lawn health but a symptom, and crabgrass will return annually if the lawn health is not improved by fertilization and proper watering.

Crabgrass is quickly outcompeted by healthy lawn permanently because as an annual plant, crabgrass dies off in fall and needs open soil without other vegetation for the germination of its seeds the next spring to survive.

Yet a grassy approach can turn a pool into a floating lawn every time the grass is mowed.

I know something that is much more fun that we can do on our little lawn ''.

One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.

Bowls ( also lawn bowls, variants include flat-green bowls and crown-green bowls ) is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ".

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

In Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is where the famous lawn tennis tournament takes place.

One example this is Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated far above Long Beach, California, in July 1982.

In the U. S., such an Easter egg roll ( unrelated to an eggroll ) is often done on flat ground, pushed along with a spoon ; the Easter Egg Roll has become a much-loved annual event on the White House lawn.

The landscape's most dominant feature is the central lawn, which was listed as a " medallion site " by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999, one of only three central campuses designated as such.

" I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ," he said on a visit to Germany, adding: " I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower.

At the John Deere store, he purchases a newer replacement lawn tractor from a salesman ( Everett McGill ) who is generous but describes Alvin as being reputed a smart man, ' until now.

The building was demolished in 1778 to make place for a new library, but this was never built and the area next to the cathedral where it stood is today a lawn.

The lawn of First Court is famously round, and an impressive wisteria sprawls up the front of the master's lodge.

** The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is set up on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.

* February 23 – Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called " sphairistike " which is more commonly called lawn tennis.

In front of the Kurhaus is a lawn known as the Bowling Green.

Bacterial lawn is a term used by microbiologists to describe the appearance of bacterial colonies when all the individual colonies on a petri-dish agar plate merge to form a field or mat of bacteria.

* The Goat on the Green Court: Something of a legend among pupils, the Captain of School is allegedly allowed to keep a goat on the large lawn in the centre of the school.

Some robotic lawn mowers will adapt their programming by detecting the speed in which grass grows as needed to maintain a perfect cut lawn, and some vacuum cleaning robots have dirt detectors that sense how much dirt is being picked up and use this information to tell them to stay in one area longer.

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

The local Community Park features picnic tables, BBQ pits, a skate park and basketball court area, children's playground, bandstand and lawn seating for music and summer Movies in the Park events, public toilets and parking, and the Groveland Museum and Library.

Beginning as a lawn tennis and baseball club, it turned to polo, the hunt, and golf as members built large summer estates in the area.

* Thursday Night Live summer outdoor concert series ( weather permitting ) on eight select Thursday evenings in the downtown Courthouse lawn, hosted by the Mason Area Chamber of Commerce.

The town also hosts a free concert series on Tuesday nights during the summer, located on the lawn of the Brunswick Community Center.

Among other things, the gardens contain a mulberry tree planted in the early 17th century, an armillary sundial, a beautiful lawn, and the old Fellows ' summer house ( now a music room ).

* Outdoor Movie Night held three times each summer where families can gather with their blankets and lawn chairs and enjoy a classic movie.

The home of the French island governor, the white beach house with coconut palms and surrounding grass lawn, is the Allerton Estate home and former summer residence of Hawaiian Queen Emma near Poipu Beach, now a part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden ( without the scenes of boats and canoes on the Wailua River, which were edited and merged with scenes filmed at the Allerton Estate ).

The United Buddy Bears exhibition, which was displayed under the patronage of Jackie Chan in summer of 2004 on the historic lawn of Victoria Park, was the largest open air art show ever held in Hong Kong.

When he was thirteen years old, Holmes spent a summer in Detroit, Michigan, working for his grandfather's lawn care service.

John Phillip Sousa regularly visited Congress Hall with the U. S. Marine Band and composed the " Congress Hall March ," which he conducted on the lawn in the summer of 1882.

The location of the ceremony at Windsor varies ; in the summer, when the Queen is in residence it usually takes place on the lawn in the Castle's quadrangle.

It features a cafe, fountains, and a pergola around a central lawn, and the management provides seat cushions for visitors during the summer.

A modern community swimming pool operates in the summer months within the recreation precinct where there is also the lawn bowling club, netball and tennis courts, skateboarding site, along with the newly regenerated football oval beside which is the community hall and children's playground which local groups utilise for a variety of functions.

In summer, Palace Green is sometimes used by students of Durham University as a croquet lawn on permission from the groundsman of University College Durham.

The Daylesford Bowling Club, situated at the end of town on Camp St, offers lawn bowling for women and men during the spring, summer and autumn months.

Auden lived at the school in a cottage that he named " Lawrence Villa " ( one of his allusions to D. H. Lawrence ); during the summer term he took his bed out to the lawn ; thus the opening line of his poem " Out on the lawn I lie in bed ".

In its heyday during the Gilded Age, the Newport Casino offered a wide array of social diversions to the summer colony including archery, billiards, bowling, concerts, dancing, dining, horse shows, lawn bowling, reading, real tennis, tea parties, and theatricals.

* The Interlochen Bowl-capacity 5, 000 on benches and lawn seating, summer only, open air ( 1927 ) The Bowl has been recently renovated to include chairs instead of benches.

Sixth College dormitories ( nicknamed " Camp Snoopy " as the trees, expansive central lawn, and cabin-like dormitory buildings all contribute to the appearance of a youth summer camp ) are located near Pepper Canyon Hall.

The seeds germinate in the late spring and early summer and outcompete the domesticated lawn grasses and expand outward in a circle up to 12 inches in diameter.

Children's traces its origins to the summer of 1913, when a group of nurses organized an open-air clinic on the lawn of the old Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Free concerts on the lawn are available in the summer.