Having an ordinary grass lawn can be good. The grass will look green, pleasant and fresh, but with natural lawns you get natural problems.

During the summer, a lawn and the soil underneath can get very dried out due to the intense, unrelenting heat from the sun. A dry lawn will often become a dead lawn if you aren’t quick enough doing anything about it, and even if you do there’s no guarantee it will work. So what can you do about it? You could spend every day watering your lawn, or set up sprinklers but both of these methods aren't ideal because they take up a lot of time and aren’t very conservative with regards to water consumption.

At the opposite end of the scale, when you get a lot of heavy snow for days and days the grass under the snow and ice will suffocate and begin to die. Once the snow clears your lawn will be patchy, lifeless in places and brownish coloured. There isn't that much you can do about snow, apart from shovelling all the snow away from the grass, but this is very time consuming.

An additional natural problem with grass is that it grows. When the grass becomes more of a forest of green than a nice lawn, you're going to need to think about cutting it. This means spending even more money on a lawnmower, and on whatever fuel you use to run your lawnmower. You could always hire somebody to mow your lawn, but this is another extra cost.

Organic lawns often attract the augmentation of moss, particularly if a patch of the lawn isn't in direct sunlight and is regularly moist. The moss growing in the lawn can eradicate patches of turf, leaving the grass looking appalling.

So, what's the answer to these problems? One resolution is hours of tedious lawn preservation and extensive lawn care, or you can install artificial grass. With an artificial lawn you can forget about dryness, cold damage, mowing and moss. The grass won’t fade and will stay green all year round!