>>1314006Yeah, in such cases some re-dedication of garden space could really help - but boy is it hard to remove grass, I spent like an hour two days ago removing lawn roots on a single sqm of bone dry clay with spade and hoe, converting the space around my recently planted dwarf palm into a mulch bed - more flowers in there will follow, gonna dig in some spring flower bulbs in autumn. Whole "re-design" took like 3 hours.
I think another factor that make lawns quite attractive around here is the fact that they're evergreen (or in my case, outside of summer), so when everything looks depressingly dead, grey and brown from November to mid-March thanks to generally almost snowless, overcast winters and lack of naturally occurring conifers, it can add a bit of life in that looong boring period
