DIVERSIFIED TURF

    I often tell Delycia how fond I am of the variety of flowers she has surrounded us with in her gardens, and lately I’ve been feeling just as fortunate to have a richly varied lawn. I suppose we have some ordinary “grass” growing in the lawn, but we also have a bountiful profusion of what some people would call weeds, but what I’m now calling “diversified turf”. I am proud to present to visitors a lawn filled, not just with ordinary, nondescript grass, but with exotic green growths like curlydock, buckhorn plantain, common cinquefoil, creeping oxalis, ground ivy, and moss-eared chickweed. Yes, some people would call these weeds, but after all, “weeds” is just a word. When I see our sundry and special lawn filled with such prosperous greenery as sheep sorrel, white clover, and dandelion, I don’t say “weeds”. I say “diversified turf” and take a stand for all things green.