Catchword: freedom lawn

Filed Under: English, Environment

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: These figures are published in a new book, Redesigning the American Lawn, by three concerned environmentalists from Yale Univeristy, Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori and Gordon Geballe. They propose “freedom lawns,” allowing natural and unrestricted growth of grasses, clover, wild flowers and other broad-leafed plants that lawn-obsessed people regard as weeds.

Article or Document Title:
“Suburbia spurns the lawn police”

Author:
Peter Pringle

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Independent

Publishing Location:
London, England

Dateline:
U.S.

Date of Publication:
June 21, 1993

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