Archives for February 2018

I truely believe that although your family is a really important part of all of our lives, having a great solid group of female and male friends is super important. And having that group be diversified beings results in fun, giggles, laughter and love.

I am usually the boring one in our friend group. My friends are all really interesting people., with what always seems to me to be really exciting interesting lives.  They tell me I have an interesting life, but all I really know about at the end of the day is making sure my kids are still alive and happy, my husband is feed and reasonably happy (depending upon how much he annoys me) and lawn grass. Thats not that exciting. Well in saying the it can be when I have to navigate the lives of a Tweenager, teenager and a big 10 year old.

But I do have friends who are super amazing and fun. And they are the perfect people to talk to so I can get away from  the daily stresses of being a Mum, Wife and Owning your own business. And always great to sit down with to have a chat, and possibly a glass of wine. The kids can frolic up and down the street, on the lawn or just not in our general vicinity. We all have “big” kids now. Which is great. So much less stressful and enjoyable. Give them a ball, a bike, a scooter, and some food, and they all play together with little interference from the “Grown-Ups”. 

In one of  our recent debriefs of our lives, one of my magic friends found this article about Earthing. From what I understood Earthing says how important it was to all of us to walk bare foot on the natural products, like soil and grass, to earth our body, relieve stress and in general get in sync with our surroundings. All of us work in shoes. Me in boots, several of my friends in high heels, and some in flat, need to be comfortable work shoes. We all walk and work hard. Easily getting in our 10,000 steps per day. And we quite often become out of sync with our surroundings. Or thats what we decided anyway.

So after our 3rd, possibly 5th glass of wine, we decided that firstly, that our husbands can all come and pick us up and take us home. Secondly and most prevalent, we decided we should all earth ourselves. So we took off our shoes, and walked outside onto my friends beautiful lawn. Which quite fortunately for all of us, was installed by Tony the Turfman, supplied by Coastal Turf. So the beautiful Blue couch lawn was soft, and comforting and inviting for our bare sore feet. And it turns out – very Earthing! We synced ourselves to the natural earth around us. We could all feel the stress leave our bodies, and become more aware of what was around us. Our breathing slowed and our conversation flowed.

It was also much cooler outside on the lawn in the shade, than inside my friends house as well. So we all sat down, chiefly to ensure we could totally sync ourselves to the earth, and also because it was a beautiful place to sit and watch the kids.

Cheese and wine on the lawn was a perfect Friday afternoon combination to ensure we had earthed ourselves, and mentally re-invigorated ourselves on the lawn. So I can vouch that Earthing does work. We all felt better after our earthing, and time on the lawn.

So get in contact with us to get a Earthing area for you and your friends (and family too if you think they need earthing) to enjoy and then refresh for the week.

At the moment there is this real trend in gardens and in our homes to make everything look old, but at the same time new. I guess kinda recycling or maybe upcycling.

Like when people take pallets and make them into chairs. And then other people like the look of the pallet chairs, but not the splinter asbestos feel of the pallets. So they make a chair out of wood store bought wood and then die it and stain it and beat it to make it look old. Or get the wrap around plastics  to make it look old. So people want there areas to look like they have always used them, but want it to be comfortable and flashy at the same time.

And maybe that’s what instant lawn or turf is. Trying to make your yard look like it has always had beautiful lush lawn. And I guess that unlike having to go to all the trouble of a pallet not pallet chair, installing a new lawn is a lot easier. And I think way prettier and more functional. You can do so much more on your lawn than on a chair. In fact everything you can do on the chair you can do on the lawn. And way more. And probably a lot more comfortably. so head over to our varieties page and see which one would be best at your place.

And I know that your lush new/old lawn will get so many more compliments from friends and strangers than a chair. Unless you put the chair on your lawn and they compliment the way your lawn makes your chair look.

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More and more our houses are getting bigger and our yards smaller. When we walk along the street our eyes are drawn to the front yards of all the houses. And its not just the new age white houses that catches our eyes. Its the Gorgeous green that we are drawn to. Most people will judge a house in 20 seconds. And in that 20 seconds a large portion of the time is looking at the green.

Green is one of the colours that make pour natural instincts feel good. We are comforted by green. Green, to our primal brains, says prosperity. That the land around us is in good health. Which means we will eat good food, breathe good air. So Green is comforting and it makes us happy. So by having a green lush healthy front yard your re telling everyone around you that you are doing well. You are happy and healthy.

And in our houses, that are close together and quite often that are looking really similar, a beautiful front yard can make a big difference. A difference in price value of your home, as well as a difference in how jealous you can make your neighbours. And with so many pole about to come to our area, why not make the whole world jealous about how beautiful our front yards can be.

Beautiful Front yards

Now here at Coastal Turf we know a few things about making your lawn look amazing. We raise our paddocks from mere shoots to be a thick strong healthy turf paddock. We nurture our sprouts with the best fertiliser and water. We trim and tritter the blades to perfection. And from there we harvest our slabs to deliver a beautiful lawn.

But what about the rest of your front yard? Yes the lawn looks amazing, but what about the rest? Thats why Coastal Turf has teamed up with some of the best Turf installers and Landscapers on the Coast to deliver beautiful yards to you. Like a beautiful feature plant in the middle of your Perfect Palmetto. I know I will be jealous of this front yard when I walk past.

Go from oh to WOOOOO! in your front yard.

So get in contact with us and we can get the best in the business to touch base with you to create a jaw dropping front yard with a stunning lawn.