"Les &/or Claire" wrote in message
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Reading back through the posts over the last few months I'm still
puzzled by peoples need for a mono-culture lawn. I can think of nothing
more
boring in a garden than a "perfect" lawn. The amount of work, feed and
weedkiller it takes to produce a "bowling green" type lawn must be
horrendous. Not to mention the expense of turf, seed and water. To my
mind,
the plants, fungi and moss ( a mossy lawn in bare feet in the summer.....
delicious! ) that arrive if you just mow an area are much more
interesting,
beautiful to look at, harder wearing, better for the environment and more
practical than a luminous green, over fed, fragile, artificial lawn.
I would hate a garden without daises, dandelions and fairy rings.
Plus,
a mixture of plants in a lawn attract many beneficial insects and help to
preserve bio diversity, a thing much undervalued in our gardens.
So, throw away the moss killer, weedkiller, lawn feed, roller and raise
the blades on your mower a few inches. Let nature back in and let your
lawn
be part of nature, not apart from nature!

Les )


My lawn is very nearly monoculture ..clover.

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At least I think i've dentified the many flowered, low growing, deep purple
inflorescences in my lawn as Bugle. Although mine are VERY low..... perhaps
only two inches high at most, but very beautiful. Didn't see it in S.Devon,
but here in Kent it seems common.

Les

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