NO lawn in front of bungalow.Turned into a meadow with grass an natural flowers growing.Groundsman not cutting due to it being raining a lot.Daisys arew growing well...

Sounds nice, wild flower meadows can be really good, especially as they can be cut later in the year.

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Wildflower gardens really nice when the butterflies and dragonflies appear.. we got out in the warmth today made a nice change to the sitting indoors.

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They came today before 08:am....The groundsman...Mowed the meadow...Back to being a lawn again.Now we can see the birds again along with the insects.Should be lots of seed on the grass now...

Today the garden was used by poeple and animals alike catching a few quick rays. I think tomorrow the stream will be back , so I have checked there are no dams. Otherwise and english country garden.

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Lots of snails using crossroads on the damp paths. Masses of them up garden path.

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Seven blackbirds about on lawn looking for grubs and worms...We need the worms for the soil....

🙂 yrs keep the worm safe. Ive noticed the grass has slowed growning this week dispite all the rain. Still might get out today.

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Had fat balls hung in wire cage on bird feeding station.Young rooks eat them in 5 minutes taking pieces away with them.Bad enough with the starlings...

Just got the mowing done before ths next batch of rain and the gameL lucky with the mowing weekends lately.

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Hello. I've missed this thread whilst lurking and reading others. Slugs are dreadful this year, biological warfare used immediately prior to this spell of rainy weather (since Jubilee weekend), and seems likely the nematodes have drowned or washed away. Everything's slow, late and stunted due to temperature hiccups, low light levels and lack of rain in first quarter and far too many windy, squally flash downpours since. But the Wisteria's loved it.
As have slugs and snails.

Hi snowdrop. Yep worth keeping an eye oI watch oit for snail when walking down the path though.n pest to the flowers i usually put pellets and greenfly rellant on once a year when i check regular i top up if there is nics in the leaves. Usually a dry spell rids of excess grass growth ofcourse nails

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No home grown strawberries for me for Wimbledon week.Mine are still green in the trough....

No home grown strawberries for me for Wimbledon week.Mine are still green in the trough....

Same here they seem a bit behind this year.

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How come my grass seems to be growing so much.

I have lived at this house for 3 years now, (since yesterday) when we moved in the grass was about a foot high. I cut it once, then the children started playing out on it and it never seemed to recover from the shock. I have never cut it since, until about 4 weeks ago (at which point it was about a foot high again), it needs cutting again now  as it is quite long in places.

Why is this happening, is it the amount of rain at this point in the year.

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Last week the grass stalled not much to mow . Now today two day after cutting it near 2" already? Garden was in full use today nice to see. Due to the fine weather

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How come my grass seems to be growing so much.

I have lived at this house for 3 years now, (since yesterday) when we moved in the grass was about a foot high. I cut it once, then the children started playing out on it and it never seemed to recover from the shock. I have never cut it since, until about 4 weeks ago (at which point it was about a foot high again), it needs cutting again now  as it is quite long in places.

Why is this happening, is it the amount of rain at this point in the year.

 

 

Warmth and rain makes things grow again....It does it to mine.

No home grown strawberries for me for Wimbledon week.Mine are still green in the trough....

Same here they seem a bit behind this year.

And unsurprisingly same here! It has been too cold up in Aberdeenshire this last month or so. However, things have picked up in the last day or so.

How come my grass seems to be growing so much.

I have lived at this house for 3 years now, (since yesterday) when we moved in the grass was about a foot high. I cut it once, then the children started playing out on it and it never seemed to recover from the shock. I have never cut it since, until about 4 weeks ago (at which point it was about a foot high again), it needs cutting again now  as it is quite long in places.

Why is this happening, is it the amount of rain at this point in the year.

 

 

Warmth and rain makes things grow again....It does it to mine.

But it has rained in the past years but the grass has never been very high

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I suspect it's mounting a coup. I'm a keen gardener, and have found it nigh on impossible to get out there and do the seasonal jobs since the end of May, mainly due to the somewhat inconvenient, (for a Mon-Fri, 9-5er),  numerous downpours over weekends since then. The rare drier weekends have been punctuated with uncomfortably blustery winds too.

I guess your children haven't been able to play that grass into obedience 

Plus the first quarter and most of the second was extremely dry, and the parched grass hereabouts stayed short and yellowed. It's most definitely neither now. The rains arrived just in time for grass season I'm afraid

But on a brighter note my raspberry, blackberry and rhubarb have really taken off with the sudden rainfall.  

 

Anyone got raspberries. I love picking raspberry jam.

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