When the gardener discovered that our lawn had become a breeding place for grubs, chafer, beetle babies or whatever you call them, we decided to have a new lawn replanted.

The most efficient and quickest solution was to have a ready made rolled lawn. It was wonderful, for 1-2 years until the chafer arrived with their new generation of babies. Then I gave up, no more creative thoughts. Now we have raised beds so that the grubs cannot climb to their breedng ground and lawn no longer forms part of our garden vocabulary.

I remember in the past years when in May we would have swarms of flying objects using the garden as their airport. Since many years they no longer fly, they seem to have moved elsewhere.