How is your lawn this year?

I just noticed this pic.from last year....a totally brown lawn.

This is this year ,What a difference rain's make.

 

Who is the dog roders?

Now you know why we don't have lawns here ... except the golf courses draining the water tables.

 

The dog is our son’s,he’s a Red Fox Lab and we look after him sometimes ,his name is Jasper.

 

I know I'm in the minority on here but I like the first picture, especially the pooch, but picture two just points out that its not worth getting stressed about, its not the end of the world when the grass goes brown.

I've been seeing pictures on TV recently and you can tell the ones from last year.

 

We've done no mow may this year for the first time, we have a mostly clover lawn and it has loved this summer's weather. I really like it! We've mown paths through it so it looks a bit more maintained.

 

A lot of lawn weeds have long tap roots which most lawn grass doesn't have.
I'd even suggest that brown grass is just grass doing what it is designed to do when it's dry, grass naturally goes brown.

 

We had a no-mo-may and after the first cut in June (after picking all the lovely Buttercups and Veronicas for vases) a month of draught, meaning a no-mo-june. The grass stayed quite green and grew to about mid- calf. It was pretty.

Now it's again that length and once it dries a bit I will give it the third cut of the season. At this time the borders are full and quite wild lush so a cut grass should look better against them.

Half wild look is much better in my opinion than the standard once-a-week trim I have sort of followed earlier. Clovers are an added bonus. Morning and evening dew looks fabulous on the swaying blades.

Thankfully our neighbours have also moved a bit towards more natural look, I was feeling a tad guilty earlier on. Some people consider wild lawn untidy but nowadays the biodiversity side is widely discussed in media so most understand that the weedy wilderness may not be just plain laziness.

 

Mine is more of "grassed area" than perfect lawn. It coud've been better I believe if pigeons hadn't collected all the grass seed spread together with a fertilizer earlier in spring. In general green. Just gave it a cut on Thursday leaving some areas of long grass for my cat to graze . Plus didn't want to cut down wild achilleas.

 

We have a patchy lawn laid on old builders' rubble soil. Last year's drought clobbered it as you would expect but this year it has been in the best condition ever. @shiney The yellow wild flower patch will be birds foot trefoil, I reckon. We have some, and it is a magnet for bees. It has now turned, but flowers reliably every summer.

 

I've got that all over my grass and I'm seeing the orange one as well now for the first time this year.