Yard care

It always amuses me , watching some friends of ours.  They spend ages watering their lawn, and then ages mowing it.   When we had that really dry time a few years back, with not a drop of rain for over 6 months, our yard was just brown dust.  Theirs was lush and green, and all the while we were being ask to conserve water.

This fetish of "the perfect lawn" goes too far I think.  As long as its neat and tidy. Mow, snip, give the weeds a spray when they start showing.

However, we have a neighbour bought next door 3 years ago, and nothing has been done in her yard since.  Except for taking a chain saw to the small trees and larger shrubs, getting rid of the shade and some lovely shrubs at the same time. ( All this is still piled up near her front gate, never been got rid of ). The front yard looks just the same as that picture above, or maybe even worse. The problem,   her yard is on the high side of ours, and we are now fighting a never ending battle with all the seeds and weeds coming down into our retaining wall, flower beds, and lawn.  Not forgetting the snakes. But the lizards and frogs love it, so I guess it equals out