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It's a Lawn - or is it?

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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Mine are so-called-lawns.  (I have 3 but they are all tiny).
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited April 2023
    JennyJ said:
    I like the rather old-fashioned "flowery mead". To me it conjures up the image of a smooth green sward studded with low-growing flowers like violets and daisies that sit below the level of the mower blades.

    That conjures up an idyllic image @JennyJ!  If I mentioned flowery mead to most of my relatives, they'd be asking for double measures!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The reality is of course pretty far from the image @Plantminded :D
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Many moons ago when I was about 16, I was out cutting the grass with a the new fangled Flymo when a schoolfriend cucled by with his Greman penfriend.  They stopped to chat the and the German said "Ah, you are shaving ze meadow?".

    Ever since, no matter where I've been living and no matter what state the grassed area is in or what kind of lawnmower we have and whether it be more weeds than grass or crisped to a brown shrivel by drought, we shave ze meadow.

    These days we even have a zone left deliberately unshaved to allow wildflowers to grow for the pollinators and birds.
    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)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Sounds like a rather dubious euphemism to me @Obelixx!  :D
    I'm not sure I'll be able to get that out my head now - especially in the shower....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Careful @Fairygirl.  It's stuck with me along, long time.
    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)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Obelixx said:
    Careful @Fairygirl.  It's stuck with me along, long time.
     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190


    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I like it whatever it is😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fairygirl said:
    Mine is just grass - I don't call it a lawn as that conjures up people lazing around in sunglasses,  drinking Pimms [or similar] and maybe having a game of croquet - a well known sport that many folk partake of in Scotland...
    That will be tossing the croquet ball would it? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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