A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with grass, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height.
Maintaining grass at a low height and controling pests in a lawn is a labor and energy intensive practice. For this reason, it is worth spending a good deal of time and effort developing a good plan for your lawn and garden landscape.
There is no clear distinction between lawns and gardens. Grass is just one plant of many types in a garden. Few lawns lack some garden features but many types of gardens have little or no lawn area.
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A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with grass, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height. 
Lawns cover a significant area in the United States. In a recent NASA-sponsored study, researcher Christina Milesi estimated the area covered by lawns to be about 32 million acres. This makes lawn grass the largest irrigated crop in the United States, about three times that of irrigated corn.
Maintaining grass at a low height and controling pests in a lawn is a labor and energy intensive practice.
Estimates of the amount spent on professional lawn care services vary, but a Harris Survey put the total at $28.9 billion in 2002, which averages to around $1,200 per household, spread over the 24.7 million households who use such services. Households that do not use professional lawn care services still have to spend a considerable amount of money and effort to maintain lawns. For this reason, it is worth spending a good deal of time and effort developing a good plan for your lawn and garden landscape.
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There are thousands of varieties of lawngrass. Each type of lawn grass is adapted to specific conditions of precipitation, temperature, and sun/shade tolerance. Breeders are constantly creating new and improved varieties of the base list of lawngrass species. The two basic categories are cool season grasses and warm season grasses. |
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Bluegrass is also know as Smooth Meadow-grass. Bluegrass is native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa. Bluegrasses are cool seasonal grasses.
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Bent grass or Bentgrass is a cool seasonal grass. Bent grass is a desirable grass for golf course tees, fairways and greens and high traffic lawns. Cool season grasses start growth at 41 °F, and grow at their fastest rate when temperatures are between 50-77 °F, in climates that have relatively mild/cool summers, with two periods of rapid growth in the spring and fall. They retain their color well in extreme cold and typicaly grow very dense, carpetlike lawns with relatively little thatch. 
Colonial Bentgrass, a relatively low maintenance turf grass. |
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Ryegrass is a cool season grass that is often used in lawns and sporting fields.
Cool season grasses start growth at 41 °F, and grow at their fastest rate when temperatures are between 50-77 °F, in climates that have relatively mild/cool summers, with two periods of rapid growth in the spring and fall. They retain their color well in extreme cold and typicaly grow very dense, carpetlike lawns with relatively little thatch. 
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