Formal gardens are beautiful. We visit some, especially in the warm season, and admire them. But those are far beyond what either of us feels capable of doing. That's what people like our neighbor Sue can do.
Ours isn't a classic English garden. It isn't quite a cottage garden either, particularly the blueberry bed where I have mixed ever…
Formal gardens are beautiful. We visit some, especially in the warm season, and admire them. But those are far beyond what either of us feels capable of doing. That's what people like our neighbor Sue can do.
Ours isn't a classic English garden. It isn't quite a cottage garden either, particularly the blueberry bed where I have mixed everything together instead of having tidy sections. What we have suits us and that will have to do.
If your unintentionally wild prairie is thriving and feels right to you on the whole, then it suits you and it will have to do. I'm glad you are taking up your blog again. It will probably be full of your excellent photography alongside the words. Looking forward to it.
It's usually a mix that includes some type of ryegrass for color & wear, and some type of fescue for deeper roots to get through weather extremes. Lawns are sometimes seeded here rather than having sod laid.
My wife V bought special sod to redo our back lawn when we reached that point. I'm not sure what's in it, but it is normally used for playing fields that have to tolerate heavy wear and tear. Our dogs still rip chunks out of it when they play, but it is surviving where standard grass would give up. Lawn grass here is thin-bladed, not at all resembling the wide-bladed St. Augustine I grew up with on the Gulf Coast.
Formal gardens are beautiful. We visit some, especially in the warm season, and admire them. But those are far beyond what either of us feels capable of doing. That's what people like our neighbor Sue can do.
Ours isn't a classic English garden. It isn't quite a cottage garden either, particularly the blueberry bed where I have mixed everything together instead of having tidy sections. What we have suits us and that will have to do.
If your unintentionally wild prairie is thriving and feels right to you on the whole, then it suits you and it will have to do. I'm glad you are taking up your blog again. It will probably be full of your excellent photography alongside the words. Looking forward to it.
Curious to know, what kind of grass is preferred for British lawns?
It's usually a mix that includes some type of ryegrass for color & wear, and some type of fescue for deeper roots to get through weather extremes. Lawns are sometimes seeded here rather than having sod laid.
My wife V bought special sod to redo our back lawn when we reached that point. I'm not sure what's in it, but it is normally used for playing fields that have to tolerate heavy wear and tear. Our dogs still rip chunks out of it when they play, but it is surviving where standard grass would give up. Lawn grass here is thin-bladed, not at all resembling the wide-bladed St. Augustine I grew up with on the Gulf Coast.