Our only green bits are assorted weeds, mainly field bindweed which does have the grace to produce pretty white flowers opening from pink buds and then the wild apple mint and achillea and occasional mallow.
The rest is just brown thatch but it will green up fast enough when/if we get some rain.
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)."
The thing is, sometimes we get a cool wet summer when the grass does fine and the drought-loving things not so well, or a winter that's cold/wet/both and clobbers anything that isn't 100% hardy with it's feet wet but is fine for grass. Oh the joys of the great unpredictable British weather!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Best to accept the vagaries of our weather and enjoy the green when it happens or the brown - what else would we gardeners moan about ? No, probably best not to answer that
My ‘lawn’ is just rough pasture grass and never gets watered, @philippasmith2, it takes it’s chances. Some years it actually keeps green which is thrilling, but I suspect that will be an increasingly rare occurrence. No idea what I would rethink it into!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
We're keeping our grass. it's never watered except by rain and we don't keep it all cut short so there are wild areas.
Large plot still being tamed and developed with trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit and veg and a dry garden but even when that's all done there'll be acres of grass which is great for the dogs and cats to run around and play and it's never treated so is full of weeds and wildflowers for insects and small critters.
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)."
We were staying somewhere, I can't remember where but there was a horse or it might have been the rude man carved into a hillside. The grass edging it had been painted green. Not obvious without binoculars but a bit of a cheat
Have never watered my lawn, only when establishing it. It’s doing ok, I also have stopped mowing it weekly since the heat started and that has helped to keep it green. We’re West facing with southerly tilt.
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The rest is just brown thatch but it will green up fast enough when/if we get some rain.
Large plot still being tamed and developed with trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit and veg and a dry garden but even when that's all done there'll be acres of grass which is great for the dogs and cats to run around and play and it's never treated so is full of weeds and wildflowers for insects and small critters.
It’s doing ok, I also have stopped mowing it weekly since the heat started and that has helped to keep it green.
We’re West facing with southerly tilt.
This grass paint sounds very Mr. Men.