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One year can I just have a nice lawn without the battle?

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I must admit, the front lawn is my nemesis. When it’s looking good, our front of house is stunning and gets so many complimentary comments from passers-by, but… it is so much work. When we moved to Ar Bruadair all those years ago, there was no lawn at all. It […]

newly laid lawn
Gardening

Laying a lawn – turf

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I had a query recently from a work colleague about lawns, whether to grow it from seed or to lay turf. This got me thinking about when I laid our lawn. When we bought the house, the previous owners had been elderly and were not able to keep the gardens […]

Gardening

Grass, the hardest plant to grow. Honest!

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One of the hardest plants to grow and maintain in our garden, believe it or not is grass. Although I should clarify, it grows brilliantly in all those places you don’t want it to; like between the paving slabs, in the flower beds and rockery, even in the greenhouse, but […]