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Ah, that epitome of garden care: the perfect lawn! Find how to make your green dreams come true. From removing moss to wildflowers, it’s all there!

I scarified my lawn for the first time — the results shocked me

 I scarified my lawn for the first time — the results shocked me

I stopped mowing for 8 weeks: what my lawn became

 I stopped mowing for 8 weeks: what my lawn became

Isotoma fluviatilis: growing guide, care tips and best varieties

 Isotoma fluviatilis

Leptinella squalida: growing guide, care tips and best varieties

 Leptinella squalida

One Cut This Summer Turns a Tired Lawn Into a Wildflower Meadow in 6 Weeks

 A lush native wildflower meadow lawn with poppies, ox-eye daisies and cornflowers in full summer bloom

Lawn Diseases Are Spreading Fast This Summer — Spot and Stop Them Now

 Close-up of red thread fungal disease on grass blades with pink mycelium visible

Your Lawn Is Losing Water Every Day This Summer — And You’re Probably Helping It

 Dry cracked summer lawn with brown patches under intense sunlight in a suburban garden

Your Lawn Has Gone Brown in Summer — But It’s Probably Not Dead

 Dry brown lawn in summer drought with cracked soil and yellowing grass blades

The Mowing Mistake That’s Burning Your Lawn This Summer

 Scorched brown lawn with short-cut grass showing heat stress and bare patches in summer

Your Plants Are Losing the Battle Against Red Spider Mites Right Now — Here’s What to Do

 Close-up of red spider mite webbing on underside of a damaged plant leaf in summer

Red Spider Mites Are Exploding Right Now — Here’s How to Stop Them

 Close-up of red spider mite damage and webbing on plant leaves

Plants That Repel Mosquitoes: Do They Actually Work?

 Mosquito landing on a human arm in a summer garden at dusk

Are You Putting Coffee Grounds on Your Garden Plants All Wrong This Summer?

 Gardener sprinkling used coffee grounds around tomato plants in summer garden bed

Lawn and grass in fall, the right advice

 Fall leaves with grass lawn that needs taking care of

Great alternatives to grass for lawns: climate-proof and zero-maintenance

 Plants instead of grass

Ground cover plants, no more mowing!

 Ground cover plants

Mulching with lawn clippings, a good idea?

 Lawn trimmings mulch

Mowing, the key to a pristine, tidy lawn – get the timing and technique right!

 Lawn mower with large, perfect green lawn

Kikuyu grass, lawns made easy

 Close-up of a square of kikuyu grass lawn.

Topdress your lawn for a lush, thick, neat result!

 Phase two of topdressing a lawn, topdressing mix strewn across the grass must be raked in.

Remove moss from the lawn – permanently

 Remove moss from lawn

Manual lawn mowers and robots, great for small lawns

 Automatic or manual lawn mowers

Rototiller, scores of advantages

 Rototiller

To reduce lawn care…

 How to minimize lawn care

Lawn grass clippings and compost: what’s the big deal?

 Grass trimmings in compost

De-thatching, when and how to remove thatch in lawns

 How to dethatch a lawn

New Bosch Rotak lawn mowers

 Bosch rotak mower

Prepare or renew your lawn in 3 steps

 Sowing a lawn from seed

Renovating a lawn in spring

 Mower on a renovated lawn