Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Kentucky bluegrass is to the environmentalist what a Victoria's Secret catalog is to the feminist. Both sides of opposition complain we consumers are so blinded by aesthetics, whether it be the lush green of a healthy turf or the lush blonde of a healthy woman, we ignore the inevitable negative impacts on our communities and family life. You may be surprised to know the negative impacts of the bluegrass are not unlike those of the catalog. Both bluegrass and catalogs, for example, kill trees. Bluegrass is habitually over-watered, and, although the turf can take it for awhile, innocent bystanders, such as lodgepole and pinon pine, cannot.
Men driving and reading the mail at the same time often run their cars into otherwise healthy trees.
End of story. Despite opposer enthusiasm, both Kentucky bluegrass and Victoria's Secret catalogs are here to stay. And so I write this column today in defense of the Kentucky bluegrass lawn. Its advantages are far underrated, and its disadvantages owe no blame to the plant itself, but to the plant tender. Oh, sure, if you want it to be green, well, that's another story.