I thought I had heard it all, but then a salesman tried to sell me fake grass (no, not the smokable kind). I sometimes wish I had bought it; especially when paying the bill for a certain chemical company to treat my lawn every six weeks. I don't even want to talk about the water bills for the months of May, June, and July or the weekends lost to cutting the grass and trimming the foliage.
These days if your lawn looks raggedy your neighbors give you the evil eye and the homeowner's association puts a nasty little note on your door, so you gotta pay to a bundle to have a lawn that looks like it should have a little flag on it. When I was a kid growing up under the hot Texas sun we never once watered or fertilized our lawn. It looked great during the cooler months and it baked to a nice golden brown in the summer. I rather enjoyed the crunchy sound it made when you walked on it.
I still daydream about calling that fella and buying that fake grass, especially when those bills come. I am curious though, who has this modern day Astro Turf in their yard? I've never run into it while showing homes, so I was curious if any of you had? Would it raise or hurt a homes value?
I wish it would catch on so I could jump on the band wagon; I could then slowly replace the trees and shrubbery with plastic versions. Maybe even put a few fake birds in the trees, and,...yes, even pipe in a sound track so you could hear the birds singing.
My own little plastic Utopia!
I did wonder how it handled the sun, not that we get a lot of it here in Washington State. You probably would spend all the money you saved on Armor All anyway.