White clover in Brisbane lawns - what has this to do with pastures?

摘要

With the good rains received in coastal SE Queensland since the beginning of winter, I have noted quite a few lawns, in the area of Brisbane where I live, with very vigorous white clover growth. It would be easy to say that this is due to seedling recruitment with the good June-July rains, but I am sure this would be quite wrong. There was no such rapid growth following the good winter rains of 2007. Furthermore, there is no possible way that white clover seedling recruitment in a lawn in early Junecould have resulted in flowering plants by the end of June. So what has gone on?