The grass is green again!

No grass left on my front lawn after two years of baking in the sun

A few green patches of moss and dried spikes of weeds, the rest is uniform beige.

No significant rain yet. At least I have saved money not paying a fellow to mow the extensive lawn.

My gardener has been spending his time, instead of cutting the grass, fitting chicken wire to the top of all our fencing, so our cats can't get out, march into next door's house and yeowl at them, it doesn't go down too well! 😯

Yes grass is greening. Hydrangeas look a lot better and the cosmos is coming out.

Ours is only just beginning to show a bit of green - it’s going to take a lot more rain!

We were in N Yorks the other day - all that lush green grass! Haven’t seen anything like it here since before about June.

Ours has greened up nicely and we cut the lawn for the first time in ages and it looks so good. I am amazed how quickly it has recovered but since the drought broke we have had a lot of rain and a fee very bad thunderstorms so the ground was truly soaked.

While there is some green appearing on my lawn, I can't imagine that it will want cutting for a long time yet, apart from one patch that is a different, more resilient type of grass (and weeds).
If it follows the same pattern as in previous hot, dry spells, I thing that the moss will win the race to revive and spread first.

Mine still looks awful. In fact, it currently looks worse than it did when it was all brown, because the weeds are coming back sooner and stronger than the grass, so it’s patchy, weedy and brown all at the same time. I daren’t put feed and weed on yet, as I’m worried the still brown areas won’t cope with it.

Our front lawn is now 100% clover, which I don't mind, but the bigger back lawn is a mess. The patch laid last year has hardly survived an will need re-seeding in many parts before the winter starts to approach. Trouble is I am not at all well right now and can't face doing the job.

Alternatives to grass were talked about on Gardeners Question Time. What I didn’t know is that according to GQ grass is the best because although it “dies” on top in hot weather the roots can remain alive and as soon as conditions improve it will throw out new growth. Other plants cannot do this or so they say. I have weeds coming back - maybe self seeded but back nonetheless.

I noticed the grass verges in my area are greening up very quickly. Its quite amazing to see the difference everyday when walking my dog.

Ours is back to normal[as far as I can tell] and needs a cut.

We are at the start of our hotter dryer weather so the opposite. Lots of dire warnings about incredibly hot days coming and already hitting the north and tropical zones here. It is 12C above average already up in Queensland. Scary. It is only just Spring ( 1 st Sept ) so we have a long, long way to go. The hottest month is usually Feb.

Never mind the grass growing at least you can cut that. I don’t think I have ever seen so many weed seedlings suddenly make an appearance

Nope,not here

My lawn still looks dreadful. I drive around and see green fields, verges, lawns, but mine is yellow/brown with a few small green patches. No idea what’s wrong with it.

My lawn must be the only one found here that's got huge yellow patches, it's dreadful, but lawn man still wants to cut it, I have said no as its scalped already but he cannot have earnt anything all summer, so I think he will say I am not on his books anymore. It's back and front and will cost such a lot to have it professionally put right only to be destroyed next year if it's the same hot weather. It won't revive now as weeds are coming through where grass patches are.

Our lawn wasn’t up to much to begin with and the recent drought left it totally parched. However, it hasn’t taken long to come back green but my neighbour, who spent a fortune on “top quality turf” is mortified at the abundance of dandelions that now occupy his not so pristine lawn. I offered the loan of our deep root weed puller thingy but he declined stating he would use weed killer instead………and now the lawn is almost totally destroyed.

Ours is very green. Just fed it ready for the last cut next week.