Our hand push lawnmower and me don’t like grass! Actually I do like grass... it’s lawns that I don’t like. Grass is very interesting and if you let it grow you’ll be surprised how diverse it can be. Let a bit of your lawn grow and see what happens. I don’t mean for a couple of weeks in the summer... I mean for a couple of years! You’ll be amazed at what will grow and who will come and visit your wild patch. And by that I don’t mean Poldark with his scythe, I’m talking about butterflies, moths, all sorts of insects, spiders and birds.
Anyway, the lawnmower and me took a visit to the recycling centre this week and only one of us came back! We’re not buying a new one... we’re getting rid of the lawn! Just flower beds, a nice limestone chippings path and of course a wild area for all to enjoy including our Strider.
The back garden is still work in progress but the front garden is finished and is starting to flourish into a mature garden. Smeagol’s acer is still in its pot at the front but will find a permanent home round the back once the leaves drop later this year.
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”
“No,'”said Alice. “I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.”
“It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,” said the Queen.
“I never saw one, or heard of one,” said Alice.
“Come on, then,” said the Queen, “and he shall tell you his history,”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
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| Sarah doesn't know when to stop digging! Ash House, front garden May 2014 |
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| Front garden March 2015 |
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| Front garden May 2015 |
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| May 2015 |
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| May 2015 |
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| Smeagol's Acer May 2015 |
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| Strider and Acer April 2015 |
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| Strider, Ash House May 2015 |
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| Strider, Holker October 2013 |
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| Strider enjoys being in the grass whatever the colour! Holker November 2015 |
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| Ash House back garden, June 2013 |
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| She can also push it! July 2013 |
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| Work in progress Ash House May 2015 |
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| Both Sarah and the grass allowed to go wild! Holker July 2011 |
super photos Sarah certainly knows how to create a garden!...good idea to let the grass grow..i have spent a few hours today with the strimmer and mower ..do you have any hedgehogs?..ours have long gone..last one I saw was dead in the pond!..we have some goldcrests ..I hear them first..then locate them
ReplyDeleteI've not seen hedgehogs for years but they are around as Sarah has seen them in a local garden she works in. We had one in Horbury. Two years ago, we spotted a goldcrest on Grange-over-Sands Prom.... Sarah mentioned it here!
ReplyDeleteWow Sarah ... do you ever stop! Have you ever heard of a 'tea break' ?;). But your work is paying off as the garden is looking incredible. So I'm guessing you must be pleased that the only 'one to come back' wasn't the lawnmower!!
ReplyDeleteSmeagol's acer is looking wonderful.
I remember your garden having a walnut tree Rob - is it still there? And your huge pond. Our garden is wild too, still have the pond but no longer any fish. All the frogspawn this year just died ... too much duckweed I think.
And Yaay - I know the answer! The younger brother of Brandan Coogan, (lead singer of Mock Turtles) is ........drum roll pleeease.........STEVE COOGAN!!!!! (And Google didn't play any part in me finding the answer, no nothing whatsoever, nothing at all.!!!! ;) x
Soooooo close Anne but not close enough! Steve is older than BrEndan and Martin is older than both and was lead singer of the Mock Turtles!
ReplyDelete“The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head!"
Doh and doublE DOH !
Delete'Thud' - 'tis the sound of my hEad hitting the floor.
(GooglE is such a lEt down.). 😊x
Hi Anne Dave n Sarah....walnut very big now ..walnuts everywhere although a grey squirrel takes lots and hides them...ponds difficult to maintain..got crucian carp and a few ghost koi....think they ate the frog spawn..Dave just watching suit flying off mountains etc..lots of deaths apparently..remembered you used to be into rock climbing ..goldcrests normally in woods ..amazing to see one on promenade...we went to see a nuthatch I had spotted ...wasn,t in the tree..but later sat on our table like a chaffinch.....
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