Source: Steve Pettis, Henderson Co. Horticulture Agent, BLUERIDGE NOW, 4/22/20


The lawn as we know it has been around for the last hundred years. In the 1700′s lawns were really meadows: mixtures of native grasses and broadleaf plants that were oftentimes kept short by grazing livestock. George Washington had sod from a meadow cut and brought to Mt. Vernon upon completion of his home. Sheep kept the grass mowed. Even centuries later when America’s suburbs first came into existence after the soldiers came home from World War II, lawns were still mixes of different grasses and broadleaf plants.

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