good luck with it. once the summer heat sets in you will have to water often or the clover will die off. at least, it does in our area. clover grows strong up until late june, then goes away until about September. ours grows so thick it chokes out EVERYTHING, grass included. in my area clover is considered an unwanted weed, but then again bermuda is the grass of choice here too!

it does make for a green lush lawn though.

Davidandkasie--the OP is in MA. Clover is more drought tolerant than most cool season grasses and stays green much longer without water.

Yes, bpgreen is correct. Here in MA, the soil is Acidic and Poor. Having Clover is a very organic method of improving the soil. Although the clover can be considered mildly "invasive" in this area, it isn't very aggressive. With our cool weather, and high water table, the clover is actually much more drought resistant in our area (compared to fussy grasses). Plus I get a good laugh when my abutting neighbors get all twitchy from seeing the little white flowers pop-up on my lawn (hey, on the upside, at least it keeps thier hired gardeners in business!!!).

that is why i said or "at least it does in our area". in cooler climates it may stay green. down here it won't. i even pointed out teh fact that your hated weed, bermuda, is the grass of choice in my area.

if it is considered drought tolerant, i would hate to see what it takes to keep cool season grasses watered. like i said, clover is the first thign to go around here. soon as the ground dries and the heat starts the clover shrivels up and leaves nothing but a patch of dirt.

the "good luck with it" may have come across as a sarcastic sentence, when i really meant it as wishing the OP luck.

"that is why i said or "at least it does in our area". in cooler climates it may stay green. down here it won't. i even pointed out teh fact that your hated weed, bermuda, is the grass of choice in my area."

I noticed that and was just trying to clarify some of the differences between warm and cool season grasses. I don't have a problem with Bermuda, but I've only seen it around here, either. I saw some Bermuda lawns when I was in Memphis a while back. Judging by how hot it was before the lawns turned green, I don't think Bermuda would have a very good growing season here.

I reread your original post and also saw something that pointed out one of the classic problems of having an aggressively spreading cool season plant and an aggressively spreading warm season plant. Your clover spreads when conditions are good for it and chokes out the Bermuda. But when conditions are good for the Bermuda, they're bad for the clover, so the Bermuda spreads and chokes out the clover. What typically happens is that you end up with a patchy looking lawn all year, instead of a lawn that is uniformly either green or brown, depending on time of year.

I've got alkaline soil, so dutch white clover wouldn't do well for me. I planted strawberry clover, which is similar to DWC, but prefers alkaline soil and isn't as drought tolerant. I quit watering at the end of July to kill most of my grass prior to reseeding with natives. Nearly all the KBG is dormant if not dead. I've still got some clumps of green K31 tall fescue (ugly stuff that I don't like). A couple of dandelions that survived the weed hound and patches of strawberry clover (which isn't as drought tolerant as DWC) account for most of the green in my lawn at the moment.

If strawberry clover will stay green in the desert after a month of no water, the more drought tolerant DWC will probably stay green without any problems in MA, which has cooler and wetter summers.

I do have some grass that is green and growing nicely--it's blue grama, a warm season native grass. It's thriving in the few spots where I planted it. The drawback is that it was dormant from mid October until mid May (maybe even longer), and the rest of the lawn was green pretty much all year (since it was green before the snow covered the lawn and green when the snow melted, I'm assuming it stayed green the whole time).

I'm sure that compared with warm season grasses DWC would seem to be a water hog, but compared with cool season grasses, it takes a lot less water to keep it green. But keep in mind that it's hot and dry for a lot less time in most areas where cool season grasses are used (Utah is probably the exception). When I lived in Illinois, many people didn't bother watering their lawns and would just let the grass go dormant for a few weeks (or maybe a month). Here in Utah, a lawn needs to be watered at least twice a week to keep it green during the summer (we're lucky to get any measurable precipitation from June through August at least).

I meant to say "I've never seen it around here" not "I've only seen it around here."