If you live in a country where water shortages are always a problem you will understand how natural lawn is a luxury and is becoming more and more impossible to maintain and afford. Due to the water shortages residential owners that have 90% or so of the garden as lawn are discovering that it is unsustainable in regards to water usage and is becoming way to expensive.

With water restrictions being enforced it has provided a market for the artificial grass manufacturers. While many may screw their nose up at artificial grass, we all need to be more open minded when it comes to the future of our water crisis and start understanding the benefits it has for us and the environment.

As technology has improved so has the look and quality of artificial grass, however if you have high traffic areas, the artificial grass can look a little worn, but if you really look at a majority of natural lawns you will find that they can look very patchy and not consistent like good quality artificial grass.

Synthetic grass has improved to the point when you touch it, it does not feel hard and abrasive like it used to; it now feels soft and nice to touch. It could be argued that if you have natural lawn at home that has brown spots, weeds etc is not necessarily the best place to play.

Unfortunately choosing to install a good quality synthetic lawn can cost you five times more than natural lawn. Looking into these costs though can be justified as the long term savings are huge, no watering, no mowing, no fertilisers and so on.

One of the things people do find is that if they are passionate it about gardening they are losing their hobby. This is not the case, you are really just replacing the grass not the plants. The thing about using artificial grass is the water saving properties, people need to think about when redesigning their gardens to limit the amount of grass and watering required.

Try to aim for your garden to be only 25% grass and to ensure this grass is synthetic grass, with the environment slowly decreasing on us, we need to help every bit we can and if synthetic grass is one solution why not.