Yesterday, I honestly thought I was losing my one true talent in life.

That'd be finding genetic anomalies in my lawn, as in, 4 leaf clovers.

I know, I'm a freak. I can be just walking along, look down and pluck a 4 leafer from the ground. Drives people nuts, especially the family. . . .

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This weeks theme is “rare” so I have a double whammy out of one photograph.  This four leaf clover was sent to me by my flickr friend gasman and his wife.  Just before Christmas to wish us luck on our Embryo transfer.  My take on Rare this week is that of the rare four leaf clover and the most treasured and rare of great friendship. Barátság is the Hungarian word for friendship.
 

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With St. Patrick's Day 2007 (March 17) approaching, there will soon be lots of talk in the air about Irish shamrocks and four-leaf clovers. So entrenched are these two plants...

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Folks who,want to grow and wear the real shamrock of St. Patrick probably need look no further than their lawn or nearest pasture.

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Trifolium incarnatum (Fabaceae)

Crimson clover is a wonderfully versatile plant. It is grown for hay, silage, and pasture for animals; and as a winter cover crop for orchards and fallow fields. Early spring it graces road sides and pastures as a brilliant flame of a wildflower. And it adapts readily to the garden as a nitrogen fixer, a source of organic matter, and as a showy quick fill flower. Crimson clover is also much loved by bee keepers as it provides superior nectar that makes great tasting honey. And bees love it. If you grow fruit or vegetables that depend on insect pollination, successive plantings of Crimson clover will keep the little buzzing darlings visiting your yard or orchard. Crimson clover also has a nostalgic appeal. Tommy James and the Shondells made Crimson Clover famous with their 1968 song, “Crimson and Clover.” . . .

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The old-fashioned idiom to be "in clover" means living a carefree life of ease, comfort and prosperity."  Okay, count me in.  And everyone knows that clover of the four-leaf variety is good luck.

But we're gardeners here, so what about planting the stuff in our lawns?  Here's what Less Lawn has to say about it. . .

My lawn is more clover than grass and that's fine by me! -OR

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I got out in my garden last night. I enlarged the iris patch to add the six Tennesee iris that my dad gave me. We had gotten them over a decade ago from the uncle I had just visited. My mom got them on her previous visit when he was still in Tennessee. An heirloom of sorts. . .

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I planted crimson clover in my garden as a cover crop and as a test area to see if I want to use it as a grass replacement in the lawn. Unfortunately, I didn’t do my homework until after I had planted the clover. I found out that crimson clover is better suited to cooler weather – it is recommended as a winter cover crop in the south. White Dutch clover seems to be the most recommended as a drought resistant lawn replacement. I will be planting some in another area to get an idea of what it is like.

Any experiences / suggestions for using clover (or other plants) as a cover crop / lawn replacements? I live in Denver; we have cold winters and hot summers. Not the extremes you find in Arizona in the summer or Minnesota in the winter, but it usually gets below 0 and above 100 a few times each year.

Thanks!

Anything that replaces grass is fine by me!

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