I think it's all because you're all still pagan up there and are out each night doing some naked-pagen type rain dance. I saw Edwood Woodwoodwood in Wicker man...
I did try a few times after a couple of cans of beer, but it didn't appear to make any difference. Do you think I should have used woad?
The lawn is actually supposed to be a 'Meadow Lawn' so does have other species of plant other than grass. Have been watching carefully to see which plants are actually doing OK this year. Yarrow seems to be the best one so am now considering a Yarrow Lawn,which can look quite lush, and a patch of Tapestry Lawn,which has many different species,and gradually edge the grass out. If summers continue like this one grass lawns may become a thing of the past in some areas!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Yes, Steve and look what happened to The Wicker Man, funnily enough my late Father knew Edwood Woodward, said he was a really nice bloke. Watch out that little car on the drive doesn't dissapear down the hole
Years back there was a TV thingy called The Camomile Lawn (googled it - Channel 4) and it led me and my wife to try to 'sow' camomile in the grass on our back 'lawn' (for lawn read 'greener, flatter area)). Didn't appear to take - although it wasn't a whole-hearted attempt.
What soil over there - aren't you clay like us? I was just checking and saw that camomile doesn't like heavy soils toooo much (which is why ours probably didn't grow too well). Then saw https://www.tillersturf.co.uk/wildflower-turf (not ad advert - don't flag me!) - and thought there must be a whole range of non-grass low growing plants I could use instead. So I may just get a mixed meadow type set of seeds and 'whack em in' next spring and see what I get. If this year is anything to go by, grass is just pointless. I think that I need to look at what plants I have in general, as drought resistant plants appear to be the way down here (120mm or so of rain since the end of March - so in four and a half months).
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Have been watching carefully to see which plants are actually doing OK this year.
Yarrow seems to be the best one so am now considering a Yarrow Lawn,which can look quite lush, and a patch of Tapestry Lawn,which has many different species,and gradually edge the grass out.
If summers continue like this one grass lawns may become a thing of the past in some areas!
They get up your fingernails when you're grubbing about in the soil. Forgotten holly prunings are the worst!
Yarrow flourishing,this one not cut yet.
Others clinging on are a small Scabious,Devilsbit Scabious and Erigeron karvinskianus.
I like this one the best at the moment