12 trees in front garden . Am I wasting my time ?

[Sunnyday321]

As above we have at least 12 mature trees in our front garden . It's not massive but probably larger than the average garden . I'm assuming the trees are to blame for it .
Our problem is a very mossy lawn , we live in a wet part of the uk ( Cumbria )
Do the usual treat and scarify but it's a never ending battle and we are definitely not winning.
Had anyone just accepted the moss and learnt to live with it ?

We had parts of our garden like this, short of accepting it you could try a lawn management company like Green Thumb for ac year or so.

I don't mind moss and would love to have 12 trees in my front garden! It would be like a little woodland. Ferns might love it there too.
Not having the trees might not make much difference to the moss. We (also in Cumbria) get moss or one of its close relatives on our front tarmac in wet weather, even though it is on a slope. And our roof.

@Communitywebbing

Oh yes moss on the tarmac as well !

All part of living up North! We need to love our moss.

What species of trees are they? I was wondering whether some judicious crown lifting might be helpful. That would let more light in under the canopy. You will struggle to get much in the way of grass to grow there though, so woodland planting might be the way to go.

Not sure about all on them but know a couple of them are the dreaded Sycamore , and some pines .

The moss will be because of the wet soil, are you clay?
the trees will be helping the clay by taking a lot of water out the soil! by getting rid you’ll just make it worse

@Sunnyday321 we had that at our previous address and after years of lugging the mower to the front I decided to create a woodland garden. It was much nicer. That said, we only had one tree, a silver birch. I think if we had more we might have cut some down.

Sycamore?? You must have a vast garden.
we have trees about 30 metres from the house - full size now. Have completely hidden our view -nice trees but I wish we’d never let them grow.

Have a look at Japanese moss gardens, they're lovely. Embrace it. Have a woodland garden and plant ferns, honesty, foxgloves.

I'd aim for succession and plant some oak trees, yew, hawthorn, maybe acer - and plan to fell the sycamore.

Sycamores get truly huge - well over 100 feet tall. It might be worth thinking about having at least one of them taken out.

How can you have 12 mature trees, two sycamore, in your “not massive but probably larger than the average garden”. Front gardens in the U.K. are usually way too small and too close to the house to hold even 2 or 3 trees let alone a couple of sycamores which are massive when mature. Your front garden must either be ginormous, or there are way too many very large trees close to your house!

Apparently, trees / shade / moss / etc are 'in' at the moment.
Have a look at this Chelsea

Grass likes good drainage and a bit of sunshine. No amount of chemicals and a bit of tweaking on top are going to make grass happy in your space. You don't see grass growing in woodland.

I'm also boggling a bit at 12 mature trees including sycamores (plural) in your front garden. Either you live in Downton Abbey or in Mirkwood or they aren't as big as they could get - surely???

we need a diagram

Moss is great. Get your socks and shoes off and walk around on it. Grounding.

We also have several mature trees and moss in our lawn along with all sorts of other plants. It's called biodiversity and I have learnt to love it. Much better for the environment than a plain grass lawn. I do get the trees maintained through as otherwise they are a risk to the house.

We inherited a large sloping front lawn. Now that DS has largely grown out of using it to play football on, and as it’s not somewhere you would want to hang out, I’m planning to plant some trees there to hide the house from the road, and basically get rid of the lawn altogether.

Moss is green and nice to walk on. Doesn't need mowing. Learn to love it