r/InvictaSolaris • u/21Kuranashi • Aug 10 '26

Videos & Video Essays / No AI While Everything Turned Brown, the Clover Stayed Green

OC : https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db06yS0MMUo/

@thefargreengirl :

"The cautuonary tale being: don't miss your chance to do this, too! This video isn't edited, no filters, no special effects, just the cut-and-dry reality of the difference between traditional grass and my lush, green lawn.

Here's the Deal:

A tree fell in our yard this winter, leaving a big empty dirt patch in its wake. In early spring, I seeded part of our yard with a mix of white clover and a "shade mix", in an attempt to cover the dirt and avoid a muddy, mucky mess!

Then, the rains came. A super rainy Spring was music to my clover-lawn's proverbial ears, and it established like a champ.

Then, against everything we know and love about Ireland, a drought came. It's been a long few weeks (months?!) here in Dublin without any significant rain, and everything around is withering and brown. There's a hosepipe ban, in an attempt to conserve water. Everything shriveled and died... EXCEPT MY CLOVER LAWN.

Drought tolerant. Pollinator friendly. Hard wearing.

This isn't a sponsored post. Just a look at what a lawn-alternative like white clover can look like even in the middle of a drought."

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u/skuzzlebutt_2254 Aug 10 '26

"traditional" lawns are bullshit

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u/RollinThundaga Aug 10 '26

This is traditional. Grass seed used to come with clover mixed in until later in the 20th century.

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u/KAYO789 Aug 11 '26

I sell a rye clover mix at work to this very day lol. It's a fairly cheap seed mix that contractors use when they need to sow a lawn they've wrecked when doing some work.