I certainly had mixed feelings being the guy behind the lawnmower.
The poetic image, though, might be more distressing than the actuality..
Most of the lawn is brown grass; there's a drought and we've not been watering.
About 5% was (still is) green birdsfoot trefoil (which apparently has deep roots and isn't drying out like the grass; and it's low enough that nearly all the flowers survived the high mower setting). I'm hopeful it'll be back in full form within a few days. It's spreading; I've not seen it in previous years, and it seems pretty hardy.
5% was tall dandelions; 2% queen-anne's lace; 2% was a tiny cluster of flowers on a talll stalk I've not been able to identify; and 2% was (I think) a wild pea variety that I still want to identify. I forget if there was actually a 6th species.
I had intended, and haven't yet gone through with, transplanting a buttload of ivy to the front lawn, to try and take it over properly.
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Date: Saturday, 4 August 2007 10:21 pm (UTC)The poetic image, though, might be more distressing than the actuality..
Most of the lawn is brown grass; there's a drought and we've not been watering.
About 5% was (still is) green birdsfoot trefoil (which apparently has deep roots and isn't drying out like the grass; and it's low enough that nearly all the flowers survived the high mower setting). I'm hopeful it'll be back in full form within a few days. It's spreading; I've not seen it in previous years, and it seems pretty hardy.
5% was tall dandelions; 2% queen-anne's lace; 2% was a tiny cluster of flowers on a talll stalk I've not been able to identify; and 2% was (I think) a wild pea variety that I still want to identify. I forget if there was actually a 6th species.
I had intended, and haven't yet gone through with, transplanting a buttload of ivy to the front lawn, to try and take it over properly.