Thanks, gnu!. I also shared your link in the gardening thread.

I have what amounts to the mid-southern USA equivalent, by accident, not design. Now I don't have to view it as "neglected"!

Seriously, I have a large corner lot with 24 trees - mostly tall, thin oaks, so I have a high canopy that amounts to bright to filtered shade, and the trees greedily suck up most of the moisture and nutrients. Even so, the ground is green with soft fescues, mosses, bluets, some clover (but clover goes dormant here in summer heat), and a few interesting weeds that can be a problem if I don't mow before they set seed. (mostly hawkweeds, trefoils and "pussy-toes." Also have a pretty interesting selection of mushrooms and fungi that appear at various times of year. Right now, a red bolete is cropping up. Haven't keyed it out to see if it is edible.

Anyhoo, it needs mowed every 2-3 weeks April, May, and possibly early June. After that, every 6-8 weeks will do, and then, only to neaten things up a bit and control some of the woodland vines and 1000's of oak seedlings that spring up everywhere. There is a strip and ditch along the front that gets more sun, is more grassy and has more invasive weeds that ought to be mowed weekly, but does OK with being mowed every 2- 2 1/2 weeks. (and the ditch is a bear to mow.) 80% of my lawn maintenance happens for 6-8 weeks October through December. Oak leaves, oak leaves, then more oak leaves.