> > At the moment, "I mow it myself." But sometimes "nobody mows it an it's a jungle." Late in the summer, after the rain stops, the grass dies back and the answer is "there is nothing to mow.
> > Howard
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> Same answer, but the reverse here. I'm from the Montreal area; a month ago, there was still 1' of snow all around the house. A month of sunshine later, the ground is now a pleasant green, but the grass is still too short to be mown.
> Still a few weeks, and I will mow it myself. And in June or July, if I forgot it one week, it'll be a jungle.

Late July and August sometimes turn my yard into a dust bowl, but we got more than an inch of rain yesterday and last night. That will hold us through mid-May and maybe we will get some more by then.

We will be leaving for Alaska in about three weeks. Up there, spring has barely sprung, but as the days get longer, grass and flowers grow like crazy. The last time we were there in May it was a colorful explosion of flowering shrubs.

Their flower season ends with freezing weather in September.