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Thursday, May 31, 2007
The grass is ankle high (in places)
In other places there's no grass at all still. I've sowed more seeds there.
I don't mind the grass being straggly, it serves to hide the lumpiness of the ground it's growing out of. I'm not planning on falling into compulsive mowing, either, so that's another point in its favour.
There are shoots of the brambles I thought I'd removed popping up at the far end and some sort of creeper as well. I'm going to have to find the rigger's gloves and pull up the brambles, but I'm thinking of turning the creepers into a feature and wrapping them around a cut off section of trunk that's lying around.
This is just phase one. If I'm allowed (it isn't my garden really) I'd like to try a bit of wildscaping, turning the far end, at least into a mini nature reserve.
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In other places there's no grass at all still. I've sowed more seeds there.
I don't mind the grass being straggly, it serves to hide the lumpiness of the ground it's growing out of. I'm not planning on falling into compulsive mowing, either, so that's another point in its favour.
There are shoots of the brambles I thought I'd removed popping up at the far end and some sort of creeper as well. I'm going to have to find the rigger's gloves and pull up the brambles, but I'm thinking of turning the creepers into a feature and wrapping them around a cut off section of trunk that's lying around.
This is just phase one. If I'm allowed (it isn't my garden really) I'd like to try a bit of wildscaping, turning the far end, at least into a mini nature reserve.
Labels: gardening, Lawn, wildlife garden
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Sunday, April 08, 2007
Le Lawn
The rather dul, perfectly kempt lawn used to be an English obsession. Now, it seems, French gardeners are succumbing to its dubious charms. I'm starting work on the garden behind the house and have already stated my intention to break up the grass with Rosemary and other bushes, as much to cut don on the amount of mowing that is required as for any aesthetic reasons.
Technorati tag: Gardening, Lawn
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The rather dul, perfectly kempt lawn used to be an English obsession. Now, it seems, French gardeners are succumbing to its dubious charms. I'm starting work on the garden behind the house and have already stated my intention to break up the grass with Rosemary and other bushes, as much to cut don on the amount of mowing that is required as for any aesthetic reasons.
Technorati tag: Gardening, Lawn
Labels: Lawn
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