FormLA® IdealMow™ Lawns are native grasses and beyond-grass alternatives to traditional, thirsty lawns and synthetic turf. IdealMow™ Lawns look consistently lush and lovely without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, and need much less water and maintenance to thrive.
With an IdealMow™ Lawn, you can:
- Choose to mow short or leave long and meadow-like
- Save time and money on maintenance
- Consume up to 70 percent less water
- Enjoy a consistently lush and green lawn
- Provide safer, healthier, chemical-free play space
FormLA® IdealMow™ native grass lawns in a variety of colors and textures and prices the lawn alternatives by the square foot.
More Information:
- “Lawn Alternatives,” Getting Native, PBS.
- “LAwns and the Alternatives,” Sunset Magazine.
- Saving time, money, and water
- Creating a consistently lush and green lawn
- Providing safer, healthier play space for children and pets
Save Time, Money and Water
Positioning properties to use less water can produce other, more significant savings of both money and time. In fact, Consumer Reports included “thinking beyond grass” among its top 10 landscaping money-savers in 2009.
Replacing lawns with alternatives can:
- Save $1000 to $2000/year in labor, or approximately 76 hours of your time, per 1000 square feet of landscape
- Reduce dump fees by up to $1500/year per 1000 square foot.
- Eliminate fuel and mower maintenance costs.
- Prevent hundreds of dollars in water consumption fees and raised rates.
- Reduce the energy needs of nearby buildings, particularly when compared to xerscape or synthetic lawn alternatives that create heat islands.
More savings information:
- Garden Garden White Paper. City of Santa Monica.
- Garden Garden Fact Sheet. City of Santa Monica.
- “Hassle-Free Lawns,” Consumer Reports. May 2009.
- “Tired of Mowing and Maintaining Your Lawn?”The Environmental Magazine.
- “Get Money Back for Saving Water.” Sunset Magazine
Provide a Lush, Green Lawn with Less Water
Your neighbors will never guess you are saving time, money and water! IdealMow™ Lawns are consistently lush and green. IdealMow™ Lawns:
- Look vibrant and healthy, even in dry summers, as they need less water
- Attract fewer pests, which take advantage of weaknesses in the soil produced by traditional lawns
- Promote fewer weeds, which thrive due to the fertilizer and additional water needed by traditional lawns
- Choose to mow short or keep it long and meadow-like without compromising impeccable density and color
More information:
- “Lawn Alternatives,” Getting Native, PBS.
- “Lawns and the Alternatives,” Sunset Magazine.
- “Meadows and Lawn Alternatives.” DIY Network.
- “Smart Gardening Information Sheet.” Smart Gardening Program, Department of Public Works, County of Los Angeles.
Provide Safer and Healthier Play Space
IdealMow™ Lawns provide cleaner, healthier, safer play space than traditional lawns and synthetic alternatives. IdealMow™ Lawns help families:
- Protect people and pets from direct contact with harmful chemicals, including known toxins and carcinogens, in synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
- Limit exposure to bacteria, as well as allergens like latex, in synthetic lawns
- Extend playtime, as playspace with IdealMow™ Lawns stays 20-50 percent cooler than playspace with synthetic turf or asphalt
- Mow less to contribute less noise pollution and consume fewer carcinogens and allergens produced by petrolium-powered mowers
- Protect those surfing and swimming in the ocean from agal blooms that feed on fertilizers in wastewater
More information:
- “EPA to Strengthen Oversight of Pesticide’s Impact on Children and Farmworkers,”Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). December 8, 2009.
- “Wastelands: The Threat of Toxic Fertilizer.”California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG).
- “Health Risks of Mowing the Lawn,” BBC. June 2001.
- “Harmful Agal Blooms,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- “Red Tide and Harmful Agal Blooms,” Surfrider Foundation.
- “Ammonia Health Hazards Fact Sheet.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).