Home lawn care could be as complex or simple as you make it. Before deciding to put in various varieties and colors of exotic plants it is important to figure out just how much weekend time you have to spend on the maintenance of these out of ordinary plants, or if you can pay to have a specialized landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Exotic plants are any type of foliage that is not native to the area and as such will necessitate additional care and supplementary things such as special food, water or lighting conditions for it to succeed. So, one way to prevent from making lawn care in your home a time consuming job is to plant only native plants that are accustomed to fending for themselves, as it were.

Some persons, like myself, tend to believe even the most basic lawn care a little dull. Yep, even just lugging out the old lawn mower for a short clipping session can look very dull. But then again, I reside in an almost tropical climate where the grass grows so fast that if I miss a weekly trimming in the summertime things start to look quite jungly.

For those of us looking for a way to cut down on even basic lawn care, there's also the herbal lawn. True, you may find it more work to get started if you already have a lawn in place, or if the existing lawn is a particularly hardy variety such as St. Augustine or some types of crab grass. But you may find it worthwhile and even pleasurable to include an herbal lawn if you don't have a lawn yet or have a more fragile category growing.

An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb instead of a kind of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many various kinds of herbs. The challenge really is to find an herb that can handle heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are many varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this perfect middles ground.

Herbal lawns grow not as fast as regular grasses and smell simply wonderful when they are tread or sat upon. In fact, herbal lawns can be so delightful on a warm summer day that many persons erect what's called a 'gardener's couch'. A gardener's couch is built by shaping raw earth into a comfortable shape or shapes which are then sowed herb seeds. For an even greater olfactory thrill, plant a variety of herbs. Every change in body position will release a different herbal fragrance.