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My love affair with the great British lawn: Other nations mock our obsession with grass

Posted by Landscape Juice on August 3, 2013 at 8:29am in Turfcare

By my wristwatch it was 3.03am one night last week when the first fat rain fell. Plop, drop, plop. Woken by the noise, I rushed to the bedroom window to gawp at my poor, parched lawn.
In the middle of the night this was plainly a ridiculous thing to do, but I wanted to witness the moment the grass received its first drink for weeks. Would I hear the blades of grass smack their lips as they revived? Then there was the smell. The fragrance of fresh rain on arid turf is heavenly. Chanel should bottle it.
Why was I so obsessed about our lawn? It is not a particularly hearty specimen, as I have recently discovered. We have more flowery weeds than a West End chorus line. What is so special, to the British male, about his few square yards of greensward?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383912/My-love-affair-great-British-lawn-Other-nations-mock-obsession-grass-theres-blissful-way-restore-spirits-getting-mower.html#ixzz2atAnt7Ir
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