Lawns. Love em or hate em?

Lawns are fine (in Summer). Going out to mow the lawn gives me about an hour of "peace". OH hates the noise the mower makes and stays indoors until I finish. Then the trimming of the edge is calming - until she who thinks she's in charge realises the noise has gone and comes out to "supervise".

This time of year it almost permanently wet, still grows, and I can't cut it.

Some people have petrol mowers and still manage to cut the grass but mine's electric.
The first cut of the year is hard work.

Make out of that what you like.

 

I think a nice lawn makes a fantastic visual statement - imagine that smooth expanse of green - but are a maintenance nightmare and grass is very uninteresting as a plant. I would never have one, just because of the maintenance issue as I hated mowing my lawn, never did it on time so the grass always looked unkempt.

I could live with a garden that was mostly slabs with the occasional plant as long as they were superb quality mellow stone slabs, or somesuch. With my budget I've settled for recycled 3x2 concrete efforts so it's lucky they are veiled either by plants or lichen.

Yep, that pretty much describes my garden. The plants are so encroaching it sometimes frightens even me, and I have seen visitors looking positively uncomfortable! But hey, it's small, and I've got to cram it all in!

 

Clutter- aka as gorgeous plants! This garden is very restful but a teensy bit boring and lacking in imagination. If I owned it I would certainly be planning more beds/paved areas and loads of luscious, dramatic plants. I like to have lots of stuff to visit and check as make the rounds every morning with my cup of coffee and there wouldn't be enough in this garden.

It is quite spacious, though, so lawn would be retained but not so much of it and definitely reshaped. I think gardens need to have a balance between calm open areas and lively planted areas, and this one is too much of the former.

So, yes, I took one look and immediately began to think of what it would be like without the lawn!

 

This is a piccie of my front garden with not a blade of grass in sight. No lawn mower required here! :D :D

 

Your front garden looks lovely Kindredspirit....

 

Oh Shiney,absolutley beautifull....

 

Looks brill Shiney