Hyundai has become one of the more common names on the shelf at garden centres and online, and its petrol mowers undercut the older brands while carrying a three-year warranty that most rivals reserve for their premium lines. The range…
When a hot, rainless fortnight turns most lawns the colour of straw, the patches that stay green are almost always tall fescue. It is the most drought-tolerant of the cool-season grasses, and the reason sits underground rather than in the…
A black or bronze ring where the fire pit stood, or a rectangle of yellow under the spot a barbecue sat all afternoon, is one of the fastest ways a summer garden loses its best grass. The heat does the…
A ring of straw coloured grass that widens week by week in July is rarely a watering fault and rarely simple drought. On cool season lawns built from Kentucky bluegrass, annual meadow grass or fine fescue, those spreading circles usually…
On a warm, close July evening the lawn can seem to come alive as thousands of winged ants pour out of the grass at once and take to the air. It looks alarming, and every summer people reach for the…
If you want the deep, crisp stripes of a bowling green or a cricket square on your own lawn, no rotary mower will get you there. That finish comes from a cylinder mower, and Allett has built its name making…
You water a dry patch of lawn, or a summer shower passes over, and instead of soaking in the water sits on top in little beads or runs off to the edges. Underneath, the soil stays dust dry no matter…
Most lawn grasses grow as separate plants sitting side by side. Kentucky bluegrass does something the others cannot: it spreads sideways underground and knits the whole lawn into a single connected mat. That one trait, the rhizome, is what makes…
If your ryegrass lawn has thinned into ragged brown patches during a hot, sticky July and the tips of the blades look twisted, grey leaf spot is worth ruling in before you blame the drought. This fungal disease attacks perennial…
Cobra is one of those brands that sits quietly below the names everyone recognises, then surprises people once they own one. The range runs to more than 40 machines, from a sub £150 corded electric mower up to petrol models…
