It's been almost NM2023 here as OH sent our sit on mower to the doc for a service in January, telling chappy there was an electrical fault. Took chappy till Easter to identify said fault then order the parts, fit them and do the service so we only got it back on May 5th.
Meanwhile OH has been strimming paths here and there and using the pushable motor mower for the bits near the house. Now I'm having to tell him what not to mow at all. We've always left a big patch in the middle unmown till late August as we have swallows and house martins swooping about for insects. This year the patch in front of the barns hasn't been mowed and is full of wild achillea, red clover, yellow daisy jobbies, pink somethings and plantain plus buttercups, mallow coming along; ox eye daisies. It's beautiful. Just needs a few blue cornflowers..........
I just hope he behaves while I'm away this coming week and doesn't go mower mad.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
A totally different situation to mine. I wouldn't mow yours either. My strip would never make a meadow but there's plenty for bugs and beasties in my borders and if they choose to live in a London suburb they can take what they get!
Everything seems to be based on gimmicks and 'catchy' phrases' nowadays @B3
It's like the 'Chelsea Chop'. Chopping at the time of the Chelsea Flower Show may be the right thing to do in one part of the country and totally the wrong time to do it in others.
So on the hottest day of the year so far, lovely and sunny, Severn Trent have had a great swathe of NG10 cut off since 2pm. Pubs and cafes have to shut, no loos, no hand washing. Trent Lock pub usually has a bumper day on sunny days, nice beer garden by the river has to shut. Originally said 6pm, then 8pm, still waiting.....
Our sit on mower is on it's last legs, it's held together underneath with duct tape and it's rained so much lately OH wont use it 'till the grass dries out, the small walking mower came to the end of it's life a while ago and the strimmer went in for repair three weeks ago, so we won't be able to see outside soon.
The plants have to be big enough to chop in the first place @KT53, so yes - it absolutely depends on where you are. They always used to recommend it for Sedums Hylotelephiums. Mine are usually about 6 inches at the time of Chelsea - if you're lucky. The last two years have been milder, so they've been a little bigger, but certainly not the size they imply.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Meanwhile OH has been strimming paths here and there and using the pushable motor mower for the bits near the house. Now I'm having to tell him what not to mow at all. We've always left a big patch in the middle unmown till late August as we have swallows and house martins swooping about for insects. This year the patch in front of the barns hasn't been mowed and is full of wild achillea, red clover, yellow daisy jobbies, pink somethings and plantain plus buttercups, mallow coming along; ox eye daisies. It's beautiful. Just needs a few blue cornflowers..........
I just hope he behaves while I'm away this coming week and doesn't go mower mad.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's like the 'Chelsea Chop'. Chopping at the time of the Chelsea Flower Show may be the right thing to do in one part of the country and totally the wrong time to do it in others.
They always used to recommend it for Sedums Hylotelephiums. Mine are usually about 6 inches at the time of Chelsea - if you're lucky.
The last two years have been milder, so they've been a little bigger, but certainly not the size they imply.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...