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Topical Tips, Industry Insights and General reflections on today’s and tomorrow’s lawn care

David Hedges-Gower, acknowledged as the UK’s foremost lawn expert, always has something interesting to say – helpful, provocative, revelatory – and is always refreshingly honest and down-to-earth.

General lawn topics

Have Garden Institutions Let Lawn Care Down?

6th September 2024 No Comments
David Hedges-Gower, Chairman of the Lawn Association wants to know…are garden institutions letting lawn care down?  Visit a stately home, a large private estate, or just about ...
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General lawn topics

Defra is letting down the country. And it’s not alone.

30th August 2023 No Comments
Perhaps Defra has shares in the oil industry? That at least would help to explain its complete failure to address the plastic grass debate by ...
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General lawn topics

The Lawn Association: Call for government and horticultural bodies to endorse the domestic lawn as part of the UK’s sustainable environment and biodiversity

5th April 2023 No Comments
A Charter for Saving an Essential Part of the UK’s Biodiversity Here in the UK, we have our very own Brazilian Rain Forest Crisis – ...
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General lawn topics

UK Grasses – All you need to know

16th March 2023 No Comments
The Lawn Association team have always advised keeping to the use of native grasses when it comes to good lawn care…but why?  Choosing non native grasses means ...
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General lawn topics

Lawn Plants Need Food… and Often!

4th April 2022 No Comments
If you think feeding your lawn once a year as often touted by TV celebrity gardener’s, you would be wrong.  Like any plant, lawns benefit ...
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Seasonal advice

Spring Lawn Care Tips

4th April 2022 No Comments
Most Spring lawn tips are much the norm about now but what is key is being aware that the sooner you get them done, the ...
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