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  Mick Gammage May 14, 2012 at 9:42pm

  not if you use artificial turf :)
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  Phil Voice May 14, 2012 at 9:44pm

  Lol Mick
  
  There should have been a video embedded in the post...I'll find link.
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  Phil Voice May 15, 2012 at 6:10am

  The video won't embed...here's the link

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9265515/Mou...
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  David Cox May 15, 2012 at 7:30am

  Long runs of steps to a lawn - Nightmare - Builders never seem to think this through - or pathways down the side of a house which narrow to 16 inches where the drainpipe comes down!
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  andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance May 17, 2012 at 8:39pm

  I've got a contract with a new barn conversion, The site is very nice, but there are a few niggles with regards to maintenance, tightly curved walls in the coutyard with the turf laid right up to them, I can't get the mower in to these curves so I have to strim around all the walls, I suggested during the build to edge the lawns with brick or similar to eliminate the need for strimming, but it didn't happen.

  another is railway sleepers set into the lawns as "stepping stones" looks nice but they were not put in level to the ground but raised, so mowing the grass between them is difficult, They are also slippery when wet.

  Not a lot of consideration goes to maintenance during garden design I have found. but i suppose it's our job to work around such obstacles.
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  Linda Secker May 17, 2012 at 9:10pm

  proper garden design DOES consider these issues... eg long shallow steps ( or slopes if appropriate), mowing strips round lawns, stepping stones and paved areas set level with the turf so the edges can be mown over... BUILDERS don't think these things through, but garden designers do :)

   
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  andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance May 17, 2012 at 9:26pm

  very true Linda, My apologies to all you good designers, I didn't intend to tar you all with the same brush!  :-)
  
  Linda Secker said:

  proper garden design DOES consider these issues... eg long shallow steps ( or slopes if appropriate), mowing strips round lawns, stepping stones and paved areas set level with the turf so the edges can be mown over... BUILDERS don't think these things through, but garden designers do :)