Mine varies in colour according to where it is, but I can't get too excited about it - it disappears once it warms up and the grass gets the upper hand Our soil is neutral clay, but if it's anything other than neutral it would be on the acidic side @Liriodendron. It appears all over the garden - the gravel, or on edging stones etc, and mostly in the shadier parts, but the stuff in the front grass mainly appears in the sunnier side, and I also get it along the foot of the raised beds in the back garden which are in sunny sites. Perhaps it's a different type from the stuff in the shady bits.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lyn I would agree. There are very many different moss species, with different habits and colours. We have several. Our most prominent lawn invader is worse than yellow, a horrible pale yellowish-green that contrast with grass-green. It goes brown in summer.
Mine is now dark brown (later black) following my recent watering with a dilute sulphate of iron solution. The lawn looks better already and the grass has room to expand. But it will be back.
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 think you are right @bede, now it is showing I can see that the yellow rattle is RAMPANT! There are thousands (millions?) of seedlings showing and all around the dense areas of seedlings the grass is weak and yellow, actually the yellow rattle leaves themselves are yellow.a
As it is an annual, my plan is to allow it to get tall enough to mow then mow it off so the plant dies over the winter, hoping this way to give the grass and wild flowers a chance to recover. I have read somewhere that yellow rattle is parasitic on other plants, not just grass, clover especially. I've got to do something to curtail its rampant growth.
Flat and green and soft in the spring/ early summer but goes brown in the height of summer. That's what it does. So does the grass. I accept it and enjoy the odd little yellow flower that pops up. Back to green in the autumn.
Yellow rattle is used to help prevent too much, or excessive, grass growth, so I'm not sure why you're wanting the grass to 'recover' if you want wildflowers?
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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Our soil is neutral clay, but if it's anything other than neutral it would be on the acidic side @Liriodendron. It appears all over the garden - the gravel, or on edging stones etc, and mostly in the shadier parts, but the stuff in the front grass mainly appears in the sunnier side, and I also get it along the foot of the raised beds in the back garden which are in sunny sites. Perhaps it's a different type from the stuff in the shady bits.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine is now dark brown (later black) following my recent watering with a dilute sulphate of iron solution. The lawn looks better already and the grass has room to expand. But it will be back.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
As it is an annual, my plan is to allow it to get tall enough to mow then mow it off so the plant dies over the winter, hoping this way to give the grass and wild flowers a chance to recover. I have read somewhere that yellow rattle is parasitic on other plants, not just grass, clover especially. I've got to do something to curtail its rampant growth.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...