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Flora: The Phantom Grass
Tue, 24 May 2005

The sea is angry today my friends! The growth pattern of grass always seams to work towards self destruction so its amazing grass is anywhere in the world really (grow, grow, grow, cause too much shade, get burnt and dried out by sun, die, die, die.) Anyway, my little patch of office grass seams to have done well for the first part of the Victoria Day Weekend (a 3 day yearly weekend holiday we have in Canada, see link) and grown mightily .. but as the dry office air and long weekend without watering went on, the poor grass seams to have dried out and bent over, breaking the stems under their own weight, with the substrate as dry as a fine red wine.

I've watered her good now, and hope this small act will help the grass grow tall again and perhaps straighten up. If it gets some height back, I can at least trim it (it seams to be a good 4" in length now!) to relieve the weight and make growing conditions that much more favourable again. (I really don't relish the idea of individually trimming long grass blades that are lieing in the dirt!)

The one good thing I've discovered is the Kentucky Bluegrass has made its appearance (and also dried up and fallen over), so with luck this watering will bring it all back and I can start trimming it all to be more attractive instead of scragly.

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