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I grow a mix with oxeye daisy and other native grasses/meadow flowers such as common poppies. Love seeing the bees and butterflies on it. The oxeye daisies are prolific seed producers, with their bloody seeds taking hold of my pride, a semi-ornamental lawn adjacent. Stupid of me having them a...

Sorry for the delay in replying ... have just been down by quad bike to our Oaks copse, to meet the gardening team. They’re all horticultural disciples of renowned landscape architect Lamie from Shoreham. Any good?

I try and avoid chemicals in all gardening matters. Away from the one nice lawn, I have a load of chalk-soil mini meadows, log piles and plants loved by bees. Always working to add to that plant collection.

Yes, Rolawn was great turf, the C B Winters stuff from Selmeston was rubbish. I was typically determined, and probably got accused of abandoning family life :lol:

On one poor batch of allegedly ‘premium’ turf I bought from Selmeston, there ended up being more AMG than rye/fescues. It was in the middle of a really nice lawn I was creating, with genuinely good quality grass elsewhere bought from the national supplier Rolawn. I ended up cutting out a mass...

Another question, sorry. In parks, how did you stop the dreaded Annual Meadow Grass (Poa Annua), taking over, and dominating rye/fescues. The plant is so prolific.

I did that in autumn, which explains a lot then. Due to the very long heat and drought last year, I had to wait until then.

Cheers Jack Straw, that's very helpful, I'll get to it!!

Hi, whilst you’re on, please can I ask. I didn’t have much luck with overseeding last autumn with a Ryegrass mix, nothing took. So: 1. Do you lightly cover with fine topsoil after overseeding? 2. Should the lawn be fed a few weeks beforehand? 3. What about watering or not post overseeding...