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Artificial Grass – What’s all the fuss about?

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Artificial grass continues to appear wherever he goes: shows, magazines and even on the radio. But why everyone? My initial reaction to the artificial grass is that it looks sticky, it looks like the kind of thing a green grocer uses to show his fruits and vegetables. We've all seen astroturf patches somewhere at some point and it looks really awful, why would anyone want artificial grass in their garden? After a little research asking me why more and more people have it, I realized that the quality of it has jumped in recent years. When you think about how the artificial grass would feel, you'd think it would be hard and plastic, but the new artificial grass brands are soft and exuberant, and I think they even look real, sometimes better! With our wet winters, the gardens are hammered and once the beautiful lawn that has become a wet and uneven mess. It's even worse if you have children or dogs, you can turn your garden into a mud area in a few hours and it s