What no lawn?

Comments about our zig-zag path and the lack of lawn made me ponder. We have never had grass in either of our gardens. I have to go back to the gardens of my childhood to the last time I felt grass under my feet on a warm summer's day and smelt it freshly cut.

Gardens were more traditional then. The lawn seemed to take up most of the space in my parents garden (room for a swing and a game of rounders) with a flower border on one side and  a fruit and vegetable on the other two.

 This is how it looked (well half of it anyway. No-one took photos of the vegetable border in those days) Please note the peony as my mother was very proud of it.

 I grew up with the lawn rituals of cutting, scarifying, edging and the twice yearly feed. And discussions about how to get rid of moss (more scarifying) and  dry yellow patches in the summer.

It all seemed a lot of work.....

We decided when we were planning both our gardens that the emphasis would be on plants. I've found you can never have too many of those. We don't use chemicals and we have a dog so keeping grass even in moderate shape would have been difficult.

But we do have a small dream of having a wildflower meadow one day.......full of buttercups, harebells, poppies and the buzz of bees.

Anyone got a spare field?