If you find that your lawn struggles to become green and verdant, it could have something to do with the trees in your garden.

Golf courses, of course, are renowned for their impressive greens and as a result they are a good place to look for information about how best to create the perfect lawn. Golf course maintenance experts have a delicate balance to strike and one recently told Golf.com why trees aren’t always compatible with lawns.

Dan Cutler, superintendent of Rio Verde Country Club in Arizona, provided several reasons as to why it might be best to trim or remove a tree if your lawn is struggling.

One, which probably seems obvious, is that trees throw shade which blocks light from reaching the grass. If the grass can’t get the light it needs, it can’t photosynthesise effectively and therefore it will struggle to thrive.

These shady spots around trees can also introduce another issue in the form of fungus and other diseases, which typically do better in damp conditions and ground that’s predominantly in shade will stay damp for longer.

As trees grow, they send out roots to find the nutrients they need and these can damage subterranean infrastructure, as well as competing for nutrients with your grass, which has much shallower roots.

You may not want to fell the trees in your garden, but pruning them back to allow the grass to get more light and access to nutrients could make a bigger difference than you might think. Contact Somerset tree surgeon, Brendon Hill to find out about the best way to prune your trees.

An article for the Sunday Times earlier this year explained that one of the reasons why bare patches on lawns are so conspicuous in the winter months is that the grass doesn’t have a chance to regenerate at this time of the year.

The best way to take care of your lawn and avoid these bald patches is to avoid walking on the grass in the colder months of the year, the newspaper revealed.