A couple of feet in front of his new foxhole, half hidden in yellowing grass, lay a shiny blue spheroid a little smaller than a baseball.

Then, turning for protection, she looked down on the clustered farm buildings where they were drenched with sun, and on the yellowing grass that bowed in long, flat silver waves before the afternoon wind.

Overhead, the sky was cloudless, and a hot sun baked the yellowing grass of the savannah and the stunted trees which provided the only shade.

When the lawn shows a large patch of yellowing or dead grass, a grub population may be indicated.

Jamie was hoofing it hell for leather across the yellowing grass, towards the six-foot-high back wall, where the buildings backed onto the next row of tenements.

The lawn, although still immaculate, now contains irregular patches of shaggy yellowing grass beneath the trees.

He sat near the top of a half-submerged slope of black mud and dead, yellowing grass.

Rising to her feet she carried the golden block to the centre of the clearing and laid it on the sun-dried, yellowing grass.

Not cliffs so much as jutting pillars and ridges of limestone that sat among the yellowing grass of the surrounding hills like the ruins of an ancient city.

But weather that is bad for some crops and trees is just right for crab grass and other weeds, which are outmuscling the wilting, yellowing grass on parched lawns.