| Open swards are more liable to poaching so greater care is needed. |
| Today's grass pitches at the top level are rarely anything but pristine swards of green with barely a mark on them. |
| The ground flora in the oak woods ranges from areas of bilberry through grassy swards to rich moss carpets and small alder flushes. |
| This five-page factsheet looks at Common nardoo which forms dense swards following flooding, and forms a dominant component of the groundcover layer. |
| Thus the potential nutritive value of uncut silage swards is limited, and the emphasis must now be on conserving them as an edible feedstuff. |
| Livestock poaching during the incessant wet weather and machinery operations on soft ground has done enormous damage to grass swards. |
