ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

motorradsilke schrieb:

You can’t really keep walking on it all year round. It needs to grow taller at some point.

We do that with ours. It withstands it and still keeps growing.

chand1986 schrieb:

We’re doing the same with ours. It’s holding up and still growing.

Please show some pictures in summer.

chand1986 schrieb:

I’m just sharing my confusion about lawns again. A rather maintenance-intensive chlorophyll desert with no real value for nature. There are clearly better alternatives that require less work. Of course, they don’t look as neat and tidy.
This is, of course, just my personal opinion.

Yeah, I don’t do anything, for example.

In the village, it’s a flower meadow or bee meadow.
Changing that would only be possible with considerable effort.

Though it’s not exactly a sandy meadow anymore because of that.

elminster schrieb:

Putting aside the fact that an English lawn isn’t really useful for most people here, it doesn’t take long for the lawn to develop in either the right or less desirable direction. With our lawn, I notice quite clearly when I take some care, and as tomtom says, that’s mainly regular fertilizing and mowing. In summer, watering now and then helps too. I’m always able to apply the first fertilizer reliably in spring. However, I’ve had years when I didn’t mow for several weeks in early summer, and the lawn grew very strongly. Then everything gets overgrown and it doesn’t recover well for the rest of the year. On the other hand, I can clearly see that the lawn controls weeds much better and is stronger when I mow every 1-2 weeks between April and May.

Who says we all share this opinion?
I like English lawns—that is, when there’s no moss, no weeds or anything like that, with a rich green color and full coverage.
But everyone has a different idea of what a garden should look like anyway.

bortel schrieb:

Who says we all share that opinion?
I like an English lawn—meaning a turf that is completely covered, richly green, with no visible weeds or grass types that don’t belong. But everyone has their own idea of what a garden should look like.

What I meant to say is that an English lawn is simply not practical for most people. It’s a decorative lawn that doesn’t hold up well to the kind of use most of us expect. Of course, many find it beautiful (myself included!) when the grass is so uniform and lush green. But just as many people would rather use their lawn actively and therefore choose not to have a purely decorative lawn. ;-)

Oh, I see, I completely agree with you. People tend to give you strange looks if you have thoughts like mine (or yours). As if you could actually do it and mess around with it :-)))