Coming up roses – the secret of a lush lawn

28 August 2025, The Tablet

Adventures in sustainable gardening

How’s your lawn doing? Has it reacted to this long, dry summer by slowing its growth, reducing its need for the rain that never comes? Has it panicked, thrown out a bunch of skinny, straw-coloured seed-heads, and then withered away like a consumptive heroine in a Victorian novel? Or has it kept its cool, and stayed relatively green and pleasant?

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