Why this fixation on golf? My St Andrews observation (on another thread I think) was from the Russacks Hotel not the golf course. My use of golf courses, links or pampered, has been solely for dog walking.
I actually believe that a smooth green lawn is the foundation of a garden, it sets off the shrubs and flowers like the frame of a painting, or like a Shinto gravel garden. It is no more a "green desert" than is a lake. Some people justify eco and laisser-faire as it avoids the words lazy and untidy.
Topbird said: Why? and so what?
Why? Just interest. So what? I would like to confirm that the majority are nannies. Assumptions can be dangerous.
And Why do so many posters respond on behalf of others? The intended audience can answer for themselves.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I actually believe that a smooth green lawn is the foundation of a garden, it sets off the shrubs and flowers like the frame of a painting, or like a Shinto gravel garden. It is no more a "green desert" than is a lake.
Unlike lawns, there is much life going on beneath the surface of a lake
It is shorter, but is a lawn much different to a fashionable monoculture grasses garden?
yes. Lawn grasses are not encouraged to grow to their full potential, to flower , to set seed and provide food for wildlife. There's no comparison and to suggest otherwise is facile and naive.
Never mind the "fixation on golf" - what about @bede's fixation on Nannies and Mums(net) which crops up pretty regularly ? The OP has received perfectly reasonable advice......be careful before you mix chemicals, contact the manufacturers, check out a US based gardening forum. It was also the OP who first raised the question of nanny states, etc. so can hardly whinge if others take exception to such silly comments. As for not realising this was a UK based forum, a quick glance at the "About Us" on the main site offers a clue
We have had very little rain here over the winter. I think garden lawns will be struggling again. A flat' bowling green' style lawn that is artifcially watered and full of chemicals that need washing in must to become a thing of the past. It is a selfish act in my opionion to 'garden' in this way. There are fashions in gardening that go back hundreds of years, this one needs to go. It is ecologically wrong when there are other far more important uses for water.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
There are all sorts of things that some folk find aesthetically pleasing ... fortunately docking horses and dogs tails and cropping their ears (for non-medical purposes) became illegal in the UK many years ago ... it's still allowed in the USA, because some folk like the way it looks ........ that doesn't make it right. 😢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In this region we have just had the 4th driest February on record. After last year's summer of extreme heat and drought we needed a prolonged spell of wet weather. Autumn / early winter was promising. The last few weeks have been very worrying.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Same here @Topbird and now they're talking of adding further water restrictions. No rain forecast in the next 10 days.
Weed free grass is the last of my gardening priorities, but then it was when we lived in Belgium with as much rain as the Lake District and needed to cut twice a week in the growing season. If this carries on I exect that by April the only green bits in our grass here will be the weeds - yarrow, mallow, plantains, assorted daisies, field bindweed and so on.
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I actually believe that a smooth green lawn is the foundation of a garden, it sets off the shrubs and flowers like the frame of a painting, or like a Shinto gravel garden. It is no more a "green desert" than is a lake. Some people justify eco and laisser-faire as it avoids the words lazy and untidy.
Topbird said: Why? and so what?
Why? Just interest.
So what? I would like to confirm that the majority are nannies. Assumptions can be dangerous.
And Why do so many posters respond on behalf of others? The intended audience can answer for themselves.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
A lot goes on below the surface of my lawn:
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
There's no comparison and to suggest otherwise is facile and naive.
The OP has received perfectly reasonable advice......be careful before you mix chemicals, contact the manufacturers, check out a US based gardening forum. It was also the OP who first raised the question of nanny states, etc. so can hardly whinge if others take exception to such silly comments.
As for not realising this was a UK based forum, a quick glance at the "About Us" on the main site offers a clue
A flat' bowling green' style lawn that is artifcially watered and full of chemicals that need washing in must to become a thing of the past. It is a selfish act in my opionion to 'garden' in this way.
There are fashions in gardening that go back hundreds of years, this one needs to go. It is ecologically wrong when there are other far more important uses for water.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In this region we have just had the 4th driest February on record. After last year's summer of extreme heat and drought we needed a prolonged spell of wet weather. Autumn / early winter was promising. The last few weeks have been very worrying.
Weed free grass is the last of my gardening priorities, but then it was when we lived in Belgium with as much rain as the Lake District and needed to cut twice a week in the growing season. If this carries on I exect that by April the only green bits in our grass here will be the weeds - yarrow, mallow, plantains, assorted daisies, field bindweed and so on.