The Brown, Brown Grass of Home
Carol Klein, as reported in the Daily Telegraph today, suggests that with a changing climate, Britain’s gardeners should move away from lawns to “working with the weather, culturing mosses and ferns”. The benefits of grass are so huge in terms of sheer relaxation and stress reduction (proven when walking on grass barefoot), to say nothing of its properties of cooling and storm water attenuation, that to cast it aside in the general hysteria about hot, dry periods is very shortsighted. As yet another dry month for those us in the East and South East has drawn to a close, what lessons can be learned as we try to keep our precious patch of lawn green and alive.
