Unmown ‘lawns’ – plant conglomeration

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Wed, 24 Jun 2020
  • 1936 reads
9 comments
 

Golden ‘Cat’s Ears’ flourishing,
where drought and soil unnourishing
has left the grass short, yellowing –
maybe we’ll dig, and make a proper wildflower meadow,
one day;

but on the other lawn, abundance,
of variety – self-heal, cinquefoil and clover
daisies, moss – give ‘lawn’-like cover,
suits well enough for when the grandchildren come
to stay and play,

[IP:Plant Life]

 

Certificate U
Poem
Nature
Nature

Comments

Submitted by peterelbee on

I like your poem. Nature can be fickle sometimes. One part of the lawn is flourishing the other a work on progress. A one of these days sort of promise.
Well done Rhiannonw

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you! Our lawns are poor – once we attacked moss which had really got out of hand. But this year the one lawn sprouted a forest of (beautiful) dandelion-like Cat's Ear, rather unexpectedly, as the drought was on, and otherwise the lawns didn't need cutting. The Cat's Ear has been mown now. But I do find it fascniating to see what a variety of plant life can exist in a small patch of neglected lawn! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for the cherries! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Lovely poem Rhiannon. Isn't it wonderful how hardy nature is? All the flowers in the garden give such great natrual colour and your photos and poem describe their beauty perfectly.

Thank you for sharing.

Jenny. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny. I do like our 'wildflower' lawns, as long as they don't get too out of control. The Cat's Ears did get a bit too thick and tall! I love the variety of flowers you can get in a small patch, and of leaf shapes, and different years, different flowers sometimes thrive the most. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Abundance is right! I love cats' ears too :0) Do you need to dig it up to make a meadow? It looks like you have a wonderful variety of  species right now! Maybe could try plug plants of things like scabious as they can be a bit tricky from seed (at least I have wasted too much money on wildflower seed then read wildflower perennials can be fussy from seed, but if you buy them already started, when mature their seeds settle in fine.) Are your grandchildren interested in all the different flowers and insects?

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

The abundance is in the back lawn. The front lawn, with poor soil at present was just short, yellowing grass and lots and lots  of cat's ears, beautiful, and like a forest, but not much variety. The grandchildren may be coming to live here, and the oldest who's three, is really getting interest in everything, but they could do with the 'lawns' for play too! Thank you for your thoughts about planitng wildflowers, we have had varied success up to now! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Penny4athought on

Some weeds are very pretty - those cats ears can appear like dandelions and they are pretty - Your lawn sounds lovley and that one side nurtured and the other wilting sounds a lot like my lawn here in the heat of the Florida Summer, it is brutal and only the strongest plants and shrubs survive it. I am trying to save my boxwood bushes they have been slowly dying and I think it might be a losing battle but I am trying to give them some added soil nutrients and ph balance and hope nature will do the rest.

Penny4athought

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Penny. Wildflowers can be good for the insect population, I gather. I do like seeing the variety, though keeping some sort of 'lawn' that can be sat upon or played upon too! Your summer temperatures must be higher than ours, but we did have pretty high at times in Lockdown, and shortage of rain, Since then  it has been cooler and some rain, but this week it's a scorcher again. You sound as if you enjoy looking after those bushes - I hope they survive. We have lost plants in severe winters before here. Rhiannon