Lawn to Be Wild ; Charlie Dimmock Shows How to Ring the Changes and Transform a Boringpatchof Grass

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GRASS is an emotional issue with gardeners. On one hand you have the traditionalists who like their short, green, properly maintained lawns, and on the other hand there are the people who see grass as an opportunity to try something a bit different or a bit wild.

Small gardens are ideal for experimental lawn shapes. Round lawns or rectangular ones running diagonally from corner to corner look great. And you can break a long, thin plot up into a series of big, staggered squares, which gives you all sorts of odd-shaped planting places round the edge.

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Lawn to Be Wild ; Charlie Dimmock Shows How to Ring the Changes and Transform a Boringpatchof Grass

In large gardens, flowering meadows of long grass and wild flowers, such as poppies or ornamental grasses mixed with prairie- style perennials, are fun and quite lowmaintenance. Or you could use hardy annuals like calendula, eschscholzia and phacelia with annual grasses suc...

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