Monday, April 27, 2009

We need a green!

Recently, we put around our customer's garden with lawn. The areas are about 100 ㎡.  We bought the lawn mats below at the DIY store.



The kind of the grass is himekouraishiba which is native grass. The price is 600 USD in total including sandy soil for keeping moisture in the lawn mats . This mat is 5USD per square meter.

There aren't lots of lawn fields that much in Japan. Even though around 60% of our land is greenary, we mostly have asphalt, concrete and soil surface in the city. The schoolyard, parks and gardens of our house are soil, no green. The reason could be a problem of the cost and maintenance for Japanese people. Japanese people dislike its maintenance, and when
the people buying house want to reduce the construction cost of the house, firstly they reduce a plant or a garden.



However, maintenance is actually not so hard, just using a lown mower in a month in case of the himekouraishiba. It becomes a good excercise.
I do not understand why Japanese people do not attach importance to planting and scenery of green. There is no recognition that the garden and planting improve one's standard of living.

There is an advantage more than the disadvantage of cost and maintenance. For instance, it is various effect such as cooling, improving child's physical ability, relaxing and so on. Houses also look better from greenary.
This is the lawn mat. I would like to know how you put the lawn in your garden.