Notice
the lawns in town about this time to see the successional change from spring to
summer. This doesn’t apply to the subset of manicured and treated lawns that
some invest, where the created monoculture of blue grass or fescue is
unnaturally emerald green and weed free. I frown upon these ornaments that
display perfection at the hidden cost of herbicides and insecticides. These are
not healthy lawns as some might proclaim, any more than to suggest an
artificial Christmas Tree is natural looking.
The healthy
lawns have crabgrass just starting to emerge, its pale yellow blades filling in
the thin spots having germinated with warmer night temperatures. There is also
still Cinquefoil mixed in, though waning since it first appeared in May, and
Yellow Wood Sorrel remains, brought back to vigor from recent rains.
Plantains
have spread their broad leaves low to the ground, avoiding the mower in
anticipation of sending its flower stalk skyward. Dandelions are all but gone,
as are the single-bladed Canada Mayflower, having gone to seed I notice in the
periphery of the yard.
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