Amateur Gardening

2 min. di lettura

Q I’ve read that ornamental grasses should not be planted or moved during autumn, as spring is the best time. Is this true, as I’d like to put some in now? Jill Thurrock, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire A This is both true and false, as ornamental grasse

The English Garden

1 min. di lettura

February is the perfect time to make a start on cutting back deciduous grasses. Many popular garden grasses are deciduous, such as miscanthus, Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, deschampsia, molinia, and pennisetum. Most of these grasses are

Horses and People

8 min. di lettura

Certified Permaculture Design Consultant As horse owners, even on the smallest of properties, we must remember that we are grass and forage farmers for our horses. Whether you manage your own grazing pastures or agist, whether you grow or have to buy

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

1 Use shears or a halfmoon edging tool to neaten your lawn boundaries, removing long grass where pests may lurk. 2 When the grass is dry and not frosted, think about giving it the first cut of the year, with the mower blades set high. 3 Snow mould, o

Woman

1 min. di lettura

A little work now will lead to a better-looking lawn next year… ✱ Remove any debris and leaves. ✱ Scarify your lawn by raking to remove dead (grass) thatch. ✱ Aerate (make holes) in the lawn with a fork or spike to improve drainage. ✱ Top-dress usin

Longevity Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Sorbet has launched the male version of the SEW bracelet, available in all Sorbet MAN stores). This initiative is driven by Sorbet’s 2018 SEW pledge: to help raise critical funds to reach the goal of creating employment for 170 women, as qualified na

Horses and People

1 min. di lettura

Austostipa spp. Perennial, mostly tufted or rhizomatous and two shrubby species. Culms are woody and persistent (subgenus Bambusina, with persistent, bamboo-like canes), or herbaceous. Leaf blades are narrow. Ligule is an unfringed or a fringed membr

Real Homes

1 min. di lettura

Plants and turf, Newbridge Nurseries and Squires Garden Centres. Lawn, Sussex Lawns. Sahara Buff Indian Sandstone paving and shingles, Nyes Building Supplies. Summerhouse materials and railway sleepers, Lawsons. Summerhouse painted in Ronseal Sage ga

Horses and People

1 min. di lettura

Wallaby grass (Austrodanthonia spp.) Fine-leafed, tufted, yearlong green, perennial grasses to about 1 metre tall. Leaves are grey-green to dark green and often hairy. All species have a hairy fringe at the junction of the leaf blade and leaf sheath.

Ideal Home

1 min. di lettura

Installing an all-year-round faux lawn that’s family and pet friendly takes the mowing, mess and stress out of your garden Maintaining a lawn can be time consuming, so it’s no surprise that realistic-looking artificial grass is growing in popularity

This Old House

1 min. di lettura

Now’s the time to clear away debris that could rot the crown, and remove old stalks and leaves to make room for new growth. Cool-season grasses—including feather reed grass, blue oat grass, and blue fescue—bloom in early summer and should be cut back

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

1 min. di lettura

The 2019 No Mow May experiment revealed the highest number of flowers on lawns mown in this way. Ideally, leave around three to five centimetres of grass length. The experiment also resulted in greater diversity of flowers in areas of grass that were

Backyard

1 min. di lettura

What’s more important in a backyard than the grass beneath your feet? A soft and lush lawn is the backdrop to your home and the place to hang out on the weekend all summer long. Whether you’re entertaining on warm nights or simply enjoying the sun, t

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

IT’S downright hard work to get a meadow full of flowers, especially if making this from your lawn. The problem is that grasses, particularly established grasses, are too good at competing so – other than the odd tree sapling, dock or bramble – they

Independent on Saturday

5 min. di lettura

DURING the dry winter months control burns were undertaken by The Kloof Conservancy and eThekwini Municipality in several grasslands in the Kloof region. With the onset of spring and the first rains these grasslands have come alive with many flowerin

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

FOR many gardeners, turf is literally the lowest form of plant life in the garden, but – along with orchids – a lawn is part of the most modern plant group on the planet. Just as many orchids are pollinated by specific species of bee, grass has evolv

Horses and People

8 min. di lettura

Certified Permaculture Design Consultant When European settlers first arrived in Australia, grasslands and grassy woodlands covered much of the continent. Many of the explorers referred to grasses as the dominant plants in the landscape. For thousand

Real Homes

1 min. di lettura

Summer house (inc. electrics, insulation and materials) £4,000 Furniture, accessories and paint £1,600 Sandstone and gravel £1,150 Plants and turf £900 Timber (decking and sleepers) £540 Total £8,190 Plants and turf Newbridge Nurseries, 01403 2

Good Organic Gardening

3 min. di lettura

A field of rippling grass moving in the wind always grabs my attention — but trying to mimic that look in the garden isn’t easy. Lawn grasses just look untidy when they’re long and most of us don’t want long grass swamping the garden, especially if i

Farmer's Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum) is a popular ornamental grass native to North Africa. Owing to its attractive inflorescences (groups of flowers), it is often grown in South African gardens, and has also been used for sand binding. The grass form

Outdoor Rooms

3 min. di lettura

As the seasons change, so too does the appearance and performance of the grass in your backyard. When choosing the type of turf that’ll work best for your lawn, it’s important to consider all the options before making your final decision. Top of the

BBC Gardeners' World

1 min. di lettura

Remove fallen leaves from your lawn with ease by running the mower over them. Fit the grass box, then set the blades high if you don’t want to cut the lawn at the same time. If the leaves are lying thickly, spread them out roughly with a rake first.

Airgun Shooter

1 min. di lettura

PEST STATUS: This burrowing rodent undermines banks and field margins, eating grass, cereal and vegetable crops. It also causes damage to lawns and golf courses. HABITAT: An animal of the open countryside, rabbits usually establish their burrows on

Field & Stream

3 min. di lettura

I COULD BE OUT FISHING right now. Or scouting deer-stand locations. Or buying some idiot product that I’m convinced will make me a better angler or hunter. But as I look down the sidewalk, I see one lawn that ruins the view. It’s ugly, riotously long

Kitchen Garden

4 min. di lettura

Grass paths and lawns are often the areas of garden that get the least attention apart from when we brutally chop at them once a week with the mower. However, grass is like any other plant that we care for, it has needs otherwise it doesn’t thrive. H

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

2 min. di lettura

When you plant Mexican feathergrass (Stipa tenuissima) – pale, soft and ethereal – with tall flowering plants such as salvia, verbena and daisies, you create a unifying effect, thus dampening the strong pinks, purples and blues that have the potentia

Airgun Shooter

1 min. di lettura

PEST STATUS: This burrowing rodent undermines banks and field margins, eating grass, cereal and vegetable crops. It also causes damage to lawns and golf courses. HABITAT: An animal of the open countryside, rabbits usually establish their burrows on

SA Garden and Home

3 min. di lettura

Although lawns have acquired a reputation as water guzzlers, these green zones actually play an important role in the suburbs. Unlike paved or tiled areas, they help clean the air, trap carbon dioxide, reduce erosion from storm water run-off, improve

go: Platteland

2 min. di lettura

Carpet daisy Dymondia margaretae This proudly South African ground cover is indigenous and hardy, grows relatively fast and has a neat growth habit with attractive blue-green foliage. It’s a tough little plant that can handle light traffic and doesn’

Backyard

2 min. di lettura

WORDS: JOE ROGERS It’s every Australian’s birthright to have a beautiful lawn in their home for hosting barbecues, playing games of backyard soccer and letting the kids and pets roam free around the yard. This means that choosing the correct lawn fo