What is the most popular perennial in the world?

Come on... you know this one.

Look around you. It's everywhere!

Still not sure?

Perhaps this will help:

• It's the most high maintenance thing you could ever plant.
• It guzzles far too much water.
• It requires gallons of chemical fertilizers just to look good.
• It costs you a fortune to keep it under control.

Need more?

• Because of it, we gardeners are responsible for more water waste & pollution than farmers and industry combined.

And, yet this troublemaker is often the very first thing we decide to plant...

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Blog Action Day: Answer

What is the most popular perennial in the world?

Kentucky Bluegrass

Kentucky Bluegrass requires 2 inches of water per week in order to thrive. That doesn't sound like much until you do the math...

2 inches of water = 1200 gallons
(per week, per thousand feet of lawn)

Even a small bluegrass lawn can guzzle 20,000+ gallons of water per month. Your lawn could drink a million gallons of water during the summer.

We waste water to make it grow. But, then we've got to mow it!
*Running your lawnmower for an hour causes as much pollution as 40 cars on the highway.

And, no matter how hard we try, it doesn't look that pretty...
* Keeping this poor performer looking green requires a continuous dose of chemical fertilizers.

Save the world and save yourself a whole lot of money:

Replace Kentucky Bluegrass with Dwarf Fescue.*

• Dwarf Fescue is waterwise. This will cut your water bill to 1/4 of what you're spending on thirsty Kentucky Bluegrass.
• You can fire ChemLawn - Dwarf Fescue doesn't need fertilizer.
• Fire the lawn team while you're at it! Dwarf Fescue needs to be mowed every month, or so, not every weekend.

Dwarf Fescue is a slow-growing, drought-tolerant, lush, lovely, turf grass that does what grass is supposed to do. It just sits there and looks pretty.

* Blog Action Day invited over 15,000 Bloggers to speak on one day, in one voice, for one cause: the future of our environment.