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Garden wizard spends 273 HOURS creating amazing patterns on his grass using antique lawnmower

Rather than simply keeping the grass outside his house neat, a gardening wizard spent an astonishing 273 hours mowing an amazing geometric pattern into his front lawn.

Keith Smith cut his grass at his home in Great Barr, Birmingham, three times a day for three months throughout the summer using an antique lawnmower from the 1940s – spending 21 hours a week on his unique creation.

Now the 41-year-old has been crowned champion at this year’s Creative Lawn Stripes Competition.

<em>Keith Smith wowed judges at this year’s Creative Lawn Stripes Competition with his unique design (Caters/Keith Smith)</em>
Keith Smith wowed judges at this year’s Creative Lawn Stripes Competition with his unique design (Caters/Keith Smith)
<em>Keith spent 273 hours mowing an amazing geometric pattern (Caters/Keith Smith)</em>
Keith spent 273 hours mowing an amazing geometric pattern (Caters/Keith Smith)

It is the third successive prize-winning design dad-of-two Keith, from Great Barr, Birmingham, has dreamt up after he previously wowed the judges with a Union Flag design.

Keith, who works as a groundsman for Edgbaston Golf Club, admitted his wife and kids are forced to avoid trampling all over his pride and joy.

He said: ‘Mowing my lawn is my passion. I like keeping myself to myself, I don’t drink or smoke, and my wife and kids are my world, but this keeps me fit and healthy.

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‘My wife and kids don’t go on the lawn because they’re so concerned they’ll trample my creation.

‘I mowed the lawn two or three times a day from the beginning of June to the first week of August.

‘The initial pattern was cut to 5mm length, with the top definition part measuring 17mm.’

<em>Keith mowing his now prize-winning lawn (Michael Scott/Caters)</em>
Keith mowing his now prize-winning lawn (Michael Scott/Caters)

Keith had to tend to his beloved lawn at least three times a day to ensure that the pattern wasn’t ruined by the hot weather over June and July.

But despite the challenge of the hot weather over the summer months, Keith said he was still able to make his lawn thrive.

Keith added: ‘This new geometric design was a pattern I found on the internet.

‘I was struggling for a design this year, and came across this one and thought I’d give it a go.

<em>The prize winning lawn sits proudly in the Birmingham cul-de-sac where Keith lives (Michael Scott/Caters)</em>
The prize winning lawn sits proudly in the Birmingham cul-de-sac where Keith lives (Michael Scott/Caters)

‘The lawn was so wet ant the beginning of the year I think the grass still was still wet.

‘I watered it a lot too obviously. At one stage I thought I was going to have to let it go but I kept on watering on.

‘If there’d had been a hosepipe ban it would have been a disaster.

‘I’m sure there are thousands of lawns which were wrecked – but not mine.’