There’s ‘springy’ and there’s ‘spongy’. To my mind the latter has drainage problems and ‘oozes’ water around your feet when you step on it.
IME the springy lawns are lush and kept at a moderate length so that you can wriggle your toes in it if you walk barefoot on the grass , not shaved close like a bowling green or tennis court.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I see your point. I was being a bit sloppy wiyh my use of words. Springy and spongy to me both suggest recovery after compression. Springy would be quicker and stronger.
But there is no doubt, there is a demand for springy/spongy lawns.
I never go barefoot in the garden. I grew up in coastal Lancashire where we had red ants. My present garden changes steadily from formal and tidy to wild and natural. In the wild bit there are all sorts of foot dangers lurking. I recently picked up a rusty drawing pin in my plastic clogs. It might have come from the plastic netting pinned to a wooden frame that I use to keep the herons away from my fish.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But there is no doubt, there is a demand for springy/spongy lawns.
I never go barefoot in the garden. I grew up in coastal Lancashire where we had red ants. My present garden changes steadily from formal and tidy to wild and natural. In the wild bit there are all sorts of foot dangers lurking. I recently picked up a rusty drawing pin in my plastic clogs. It might have come from the plastic netting pinned to a wooden frame that I use to keep the herons away from my fish.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."