Desertification comes to Commonwealth Avenue

Oh, I know what is happening there. It’s a thing called a drought. That’s when it does not rain much. Because it does not rain much the grass does not get much water. The ground dries up. Plants die. As they die, they turn yellow. Desserts look kind of yellowish, so that’s why those areas now resemble deserts. I would have thought all this would be obvious, but well, I decided to explain it anyway.

Seriously though, I too have noticed that people seem to have just given up watering medium strips in the center of roads now. Just in time to replace them with tramlines I say.

Holden Caulfield said :

…and, not to mention the blue Falcon on the side of the road, haha.

…chuckle…

…and, not to mention the blue Falcon on the side of the road, haha.

not today, it was bloody cold…

Hence use of the term ‘been’, rather than ‘is’.

It’s been fcking hot.

Haven’t driven that way lately, but its probably because of the bulbs.

After they’ve flowered, the leaves need to die back completely before they’re disturbed at all. This is so they can gather the nutrients into their bulb that are needed to allow them to survive and flower next year. If you cut back the living foliage at all (inc mowing the area), they’ll die and never return.

At a guess, Floriade costs too much to put on every year for the organisers to run that risk …

(About the lawn, probably the same reason that mine looks that way – insane heat and no water)

Drought and water restrictions.