Grass Clippings

Garden Designers shun lawns in RHS Chelsea show gardens

I spent a bit of time catching up on the BBC's coverage of The Chelsea Flower Show over the recent Bank Holiday. It was the 87th Royal Horticultural Society show at the grounds of the Royal Hospital and covers 11 acres - of predominately grass that is removed or reinstated after the last show garden and landscapers truck leaves the site.

A total of 157,000 visitors were expected to visit the four-day- event. My quest was to see how many times the presenters Alan Titchmarsh and Joe Swift mentioned the word 'lawn'. It took two full hour shows and three minutes into the Wednesday review of Chelsea programme for Joe Swift to have an eureka moment!

Real grass provides the velvet feel at Chelsea Show Garden

A garden is not a garden without a lawn and pleased to see that one particular garden designer at The Chelsea Flower Show has incorporated real turf into his garden design, although no consideration has been given to the actual practical elements of getting a lawn mower up onto the raised purple slate garden! More art than a practical garden.

Lawn Blog - the place to visit for lawn advice

A lawn traditionally makes up the largest number of square metres of a garden and is sadly the most neglected part of a garden. A web based source of consistent, timely, reliable and professional lawn advice is so important and an aspect that has been lacking in the media and at the frustration of many a lawn owner.

So what is a blog? And why a lawn blog? A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show - making your lawn grow better

This week, Tuesday 19th - Saturday 23rd May sees the RHS Chelsea Flower Show open the doors of the gardens belonging to The Royal Hospital Chelsea for the gardening event of the year, billed as the ultimate event in the gardening calendar. It sets the latest gardening trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and creates an explosion of colours and scents.

Cutting-edge garden design and thousands of perfect blooms; top growers and world class designers; scents and sights and shopping galore. Chelsea will be crammed with leading lights, big name designers and the spectacle you'd expect at the world’s greatest gardening event. Don’t miss out on the gardening event of the year.

National Weed Control Week

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of America's most influential thinkers and writers. His famous quote is 'What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered'.

National Weed Control Week (11th-17th May) is all about taking back control of your Garden and in order to help you do this we have some top tips to help keep those weeds at bay'