The results are in from the UC Davis Study of GreenRX and GreenTX.

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Painting has taken on a whole new dimension- spray painting. But not just spray painting anything, this is spray painting lawns! That is right- spray painting lawns. This new practice is largely due to two factors- the first being water restrictions and the second being the high number of foreclosed home throughout the U.S. These foreclosed homes are often left uncared for, including the lawns. As a result, real estate agents have painted the lawns of their listed foreclosed homes and in the case of one city in California, the entire town is getting a spray!

The California city that has taken this green spray paint initiative is Perris, California, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The city has hired a contractor to spray paint all the lawns with environmentally friendly dye that lasts up to six months and it will not harm people or pets. The average cost for painting a lawn is about $550. The city of Perris, California has set aside $2 million dollars to stabilize it's high foreclosure rate neighborhoods.

Don’t let the new water restrictions may make it difficult to keep your lawn extra green this summer

A green lawn adds value to your home! (ARA) - Thinking of selling your home?
Sprucing up your yard will help get buyers attention and can add up to 15 percent to its value. It may even be the difference between a potential buyer and a drive-away.

Michelle Dawson, realtytimes.com, notes Mark S. Henry of the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at Clemson University found that excellent landscaping added 4 to 5 percent to the value of a good home.

In addition, homes with poor landscaping in the same neighborhoods as those with excellent landscaping sold for 8 to 10 percent less.

(Courtesy of ARAcontent)

With the right planning and cost controls, you can keep your course in competitive condition year round.

When Mother Nature says your greens should be shaggy and your fairways dormant, but your customers want greens as fast as kitchen linoleum and fairways as green as Irish pastureland, what can you do but shell out the money and give the public what they want? If you plan carefully, know what you're doing and find ways to control other maintenance expenditures, you may be able to hold on to a decent profit margin. But as Kermit the Frog knows all too well, it's not easy being green.

Ed Dooley, a high school teacher with a single-digit handicap, thaws out of the Illinois winters by taking golf trips to sunny climates, and he echoes what many golfers say: "I'd rather play an average course that's conditioned well than a great layout that's in second-rate shape. I'm coming from a place where for months everything I've seen is dormant and dead looking. I'm looking for green grass."

It's essential for a golf course operator trying to attract out-of-town, out-of-state play to determine what kind of condition his course must be in. But the same predicament exists for daily-fee courses and country clubs that market locally, where competition is stiff. Therefore, an owner should determine who his clientele is before he starts pumping too much money into cosmetics. Is it the high-end player willing to shell out big money for a green fee, or is it a fellow on a budget who simply wants to enjoy whacking at the ball and chasing it? If you're charging top dollar, you may not have any choice but to spend a little more on window dressing. Overseeding is costly (it may constitute as much as 20-25 percent of the maintenance budget for a course operating year round), but there may be no way around it.