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Over the years I have concentrated the majority of my posts on watch related matters. In an attempt to sow some discussion, water down any controversies, ensure that there no dry patches I’ve posted a photograph of my lawn. Hope you too will roll out your lawn for all to see. Those living in an apartment a pot plant will do.

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There’s about a snowball’s chance in h*ll I’m posting a pic of my “lawn.” It barely qualifies as a lawn. It is a family trait, I think, that we struggle to maintain lush, green lawns. The only saving grace to my embarrassment of a lawn is that there isn’t a single nice lawn on my street! All of us struggle. I should probably qualify what I mean by struggle: I hate lawn and yard maintenance and do the bare minimum necessary. So by struggle I mean I don’t really try and just mow it when I have to. Also, my lawn is maybe 10’ by 20’, if that, so I really have no excuse for this.

Your lawn is beautiful, by the way.
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^^^^^ thanks, gets a lot of fertiliser.
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I have a lawn which only needs a small amount of rain to turn into a bog. Was looking respectable until my daughter's birthday party a couple of weeks back and now it looks like Worthy Farm after a particularly wet Glastonbury.
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Welcome to the Jungle :oops:
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In lieu of my atrocious lawn, I share my wife’s front yard…

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sproughton wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 3:55 pm I have a lawn which only needs a small amount of rain to turn into a bog.
My back yard is a bog, too! The home owners’ association mandates 8’ fences, so it never gets much direct sunlight to dry things off after a rain (small yard because I’m in a townhouse). Between that and the high fences making it feel like a prison yard, I’ve written it off. I’ve got tons of moss growing back there now.
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We live with these busy little fellows so "lawn" is just "grass", if that!
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Most of the neighbours use some sort of ghastly sonic repeller I think, which we won't, so they live here en masse. They're welcome, along with the deer who nibble my wife's horticulture.... :lol:
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This photograph of our lawn was taken a few moments ago.

Small but perfectly formed.

To be honest Sue is more of a plantswoman than a keeper of lawns.
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H0rati0 wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 5:04 pm We live with these busy little fellows
During the last locked down we were visited by the same ‘little fellows’ who took great delight in stripping our rose bushes of their flowers.
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scooter wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 9:16 amTo be honest Sue is more of a plantswoman than a keeper of lawns.
Coral takes charge of the boards as she knows her plants and shrubs. It leaves me to care for the lawn which I derive a sense of satisfaction from. Weed free, neatly cut and undistributed, that is until the dog and grandchildren decided otherwise. Lol
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I am a lover of lawns myself.

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Brilliant thread! This is my ‘lawn’ :
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missF wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 10:05 am Brilliant thread! This is my ‘lawn’ :
Love it, ‘green’ evokes a lot of positive thoughts.
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^^
ZWhen I was in hospital I read a study that showed that even a small patch of green in a room ( even a small painted patch of a wall) could reduce stress levels. We can’t survive separated from greenness and nature
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