Artificial Grass

[Nik2879]

We have a small back garden at the moment its a step to the grass. The lawn isnt flat and the grass does flood a lot so doesn’t always look the best. Thinking of getting artificial grass as we also have a toddler. Has anyone got this recently and can recommend the best type of grass to get thats the most realistic please? Ideally Id rather keep real grass but I think we would have to dig it all up and start again.

I don't like fake grass either OP, but we had it in a house in a similar situation.

Clay soil and the one house in a row that attempted to keep a lawn battled yearly with moss and flooding and spent ££££ on people coming in and treating it. In 16 years it never looked decent.

However I still have clay soil now, but we have meadow lawn essentially which works well, I wonder if that might be a half way point, or the moss lawn someone else suggested, though I don't know how that would hold up to toddlers.

*we actually laid ours over what was a gravel area previously just to try to add some more green...

Gardening section.

People who like gardening like growing living things with some hard landscaping.

Artificial grass is plastic. Why cover your garden with plastic?

I was planning on getting rid of my grass but I would have replaced it with gravel like one of my neighbours did. He had plants growing out of his gravel and had lots of different types of bees and other pollinators in his garden.

Plastic 'grass' is the devil's work. I cannot believe it has caught on.

Harder to steal...

Wouldn't plastic grass flood too? And without the chance to drain on the lawn itself there'll be more run-off at each side.
Plastic is the worst option of many

theemmadilemma that’s exactly the reason. We are spending a lot of time and money on the grass every year trying just to make it look half decent. We also have clay soil. All I want is a half decent lawn lol.

For flooding, your better off taking all the grass up and re prepping the area. Then leave borders at the side of it with plants that have a good root system that will soak up run off from excess rain. Then re lay lawn.

You could do a basically edible boarder with dwarf trees, fruit bushes, herbs, lavender etc that your toddler can learn from too as he grows.

Caspianberg Thanks for the advice didnt think about boarders all the way around. It is all bumpy anyway so definitely needs all relaying.