Beautiful usage of lawn grass.... thanks for sharing the pics. Pankaj
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM, raghu ananth <raghu_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Grass is green on both sides of the fence > > (My home garden in KR Nagar and Bangalore) > > > > > > After it rains, the garden in front of my house develops a natural lawn, as > grass grows unchecked. Sometimes, in the early morning sun,the dew on the > young grass seems to glow like pearls, butterflies flutter around and birds > are found busy digging into the ground, and this sight gives me immense > pleasure. In fact, the grass and the green foliage grows so tall and appears > so dense that people remark whether it is a garden or a mini forest. In > fact, many including us, strangely enough, have seen the mongoose and even > the elusive small Indian civet cat with hairy bush tail running in the > dense undergrowth in the darkness. > > > > During the dry season as well, the grass cover is still there prompting > villagers to come and cut grass or graze their cattle inside our > garden.Decades back the land was barren here but after some more trees were > planted the leaves fell to the ground and made for a soft fertile earth. > > > > In Bangalore , We have a small lawn as well. But where earlier it had come > up naturally, here it had been manmade. Where earlier it was free, here I > had to pay a pretty large sum from my pocket. But yes, I derived pleasure > from the latter as well. > > Regards > > Raghu > > Photdates - Krishnarajanagar -15 Jun 2008, > > Bangalore 27 Mar 2005 > > > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
