Go on; pinch yourself. That perennial dream of landscaping – the perfect lawn – is no longer a fantasy but a modern-day reality show starring artificial turf. This perfect lawn, a plastic grass, is not your father’s Astroturf with a pile cropped short, nylon fiber stiff and shiny, and color so fluorescent that it looks anything but real. What’s in a perfect lawn? Today’s artificial turf is aesthetically pleasing, with taller fibers designed to replicate natural grass – to look like a perfect natural grass lawn, but not TOO perfect. Blade heights on the artificial perfect lawn are staggered, and typically the grass fibers are made with slightly contrasting but complimentary and lifelike green hues. Today’s plastic perfect lawn often includes a layer of tan or brown fiber for a realistic, imperfect “dead grass” appearance. The current generation of perfect artificial lawn is derived from polyethylene, the plastic that milk cartons are manufactured from, so it’s perfectly “green.” Polyethylene grass is recyclable (not biodegradable) so it doesn’t have to take up space in a landfill forever. The perfect lawn with artificial green retains its green appearance, day after day. This perfect lawn’s color pigments – naturally occurring, with no lead – used in contemporary artificial turf fibers are embedded, not painted on. Most of all, the artificial perfect lawn demands none of the maintenance (at least not during the anticipated 15- to 20-year lifespan of the plastic grass) of natural grass. No mowing, watering or fertilizing … a perfect lawn.