I want to but it isn’t my lawn to decide with. Council controls a lot of green space they could do this with.
100% of tory voters I know plan to vote green so maybe we will see changes with a total council change. Sadly my sample size is tiny.
Edit: Would also love to keep bees.
My large garden looked a bit rubbish last year left to go wild but this year it’s looking much better, lots more patches of wildflowers which is great. All I have to do is mow a path for my washing line, so much easier and just pull up the big stinging nettles before they take hold. Also have a fluffle of rabbits living there this year and lots more birds.
I can’t even keep my lawn full of grass near mind letting it grow wild! Maybe I should add flower seeds when I reseed the patches.
So no more mowing? Sold, cool, excellent. It’s mostly dandelions anyway.
Aha. And this is after uk government legalised bee killing pesticides. What a joke.
There’s a man in Doncaster who mows his lawn four times a day and shows it off in the RHS Open Garden Scheme, so he would give that a big nope.
We DO keep our lawn quite long, in fact; I think it’s quite healthy for the grass, but it is not a wildlife lawn- I actually like the grass and the random stuff can be elsewhere in the garden, like in the No Man’s Land at the back that the railway actually owns.
As the article says, though, plenty of scope for neighbour disputes. People with grass-only lawns dislike people with non-weeded lawns because the weed seeds propagate to the neighbours. Our lawn is in a pretty grassy state because both our immediate neighbours are lawn fanatics who weed and feed, so we don’t get seeds floating over.
Yes, as someone else is mentioning, one can indeed grow stuff that bees like, and that in turn helps if you are growing stuff yourself that you need bees to pollinate.
> There were also sightings of declining species such as man
We’re done guys 😱
As a dog owner, long grass usually concerns me with ticks and the like, won’t that be an issue too?
Been doing this. Takes a few years to set up and get it looking nice. But it’s on its way this year.
My mam is insistent we purge the dandelions from our lawn. She won’t hear of anything that’s good for the bees and butterflies. But I want to go pick some dandelions and put them into soap… so they’re staying!
We need the likes of Alan Titchmarsh to come out in support of this. Older people seem to love the idea of perfect gardens and think they are natural, not something manmade and relatively new as an idea, they won’t change their mind unless someone they respect comes out and tells them why they should.
I tried to do this last year, I even got some meadow flower seeds to scatter on my front lawn but I got complaints from the neighbours and the housing association.
It’s impossible to do this unless you are a middle-class home owner tbh
We mow our lawns but they are always covered in flowers. You get a day of just green and then the flowers come back. Daisies, buttercups, dandelions, loads of violets this year, plantain, some sort of hawkweed and white clover. The clover is a great favourite of the bees. We do have a lot of wildlife freindly plants and shrubs in the borders too. I think you can strike a happy medium.
One of my neighbours does this anyway, it’s called laziness.
Id love to grow wild flowers where my lawn is. Id also love to grow grass there. Its just a mess of weeds and moss that seem indestructible. Third year on the bounce to try and get a sensible lawn. Now considering pulling it all up and putting down artificial grass.
No because it looks fucking untidy and I can’t find the dog shit to pick up before I step in it
Fuck off, I will but have you seen the shit they’re doing to cows? PUTTING FUCKING METHANE MASKS ON THEM, to “save the environment” eat my arse tory bastards
Lets see what the old people do, everyone near me has immaculate lawns.
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I want to but it isn’t my lawn to decide with. Council controls a lot of green space they could do this with.
100% of tory voters I know plan to vote green so maybe we will see changes with a total council change. Sadly my sample size is tiny.
Edit: Would also love to keep bees.
My large garden looked a bit rubbish last year left to go wild but this year it’s looking much better, lots more patches of wildflowers which is great. All I have to do is mow a path for my washing line, so much easier and just pull up the big stinging nettles before they take hold. Also have a fluffle of rabbits living there this year and lots more birds.
I can’t even keep my lawn full of grass near mind letting it grow wild! Maybe I should add flower seeds when I reseed the patches.
So no more mowing? Sold, cool, excellent. It’s mostly dandelions anyway.
Aha. And this is after uk government legalised bee killing pesticides. What a joke.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/uk-bee-killing-pesticide-eu-ban-b2026622.html%3famp
There’s a man in Doncaster who mows his lawn four times a day and shows it off in the RHS Open Garden Scheme, so he would give that a big nope.
We DO keep our lawn quite long, in fact; I think it’s quite healthy for the grass, but it is not a wildlife lawn- I actually like the grass and the random stuff can be elsewhere in the garden, like in the No Man’s Land at the back that the railway actually owns.
As the article says, though, plenty of scope for neighbour disputes. People with grass-only lawns dislike people with non-weeded lawns because the weed seeds propagate to the neighbours. Our lawn is in a pretty grassy state because both our immediate neighbours are lawn fanatics who weed and feed, so we don’t get seeds floating over.
Yes, as someone else is mentioning, one can indeed grow stuff that bees like, and that in turn helps if you are growing stuff yourself that you need bees to pollinate.
> There were also sightings of declining species such as man
We’re done guys 😱
As a dog owner, long grass usually concerns me with ticks and the like, won’t that be an issue too?
Been doing this. Takes a few years to set up and get it looking nice. But it’s on its way this year.
My mam is insistent we purge the dandelions from our lawn. She won’t hear of anything that’s good for the bees and butterflies. But I want to go pick some dandelions and put them into soap… so they’re staying!
We need the likes of Alan Titchmarsh to come out in support of this. Older people seem to love the idea of perfect gardens and think they are natural, not something manmade and relatively new as an idea, they won’t change their mind unless someone they respect comes out and tells them why they should.
I tried to do this last year, I even got some meadow flower seeds to scatter on my front lawn but I got complaints from the neighbours and the housing association.
It’s impossible to do this unless you are a middle-class home owner tbh
We mow our lawns but they are always covered in flowers. You get a day of just green and then the flowers come back. Daisies, buttercups, dandelions, loads of violets this year, plantain, some sort of hawkweed and white clover. The clover is a great favourite of the bees. We do have a lot of wildlife freindly plants and shrubs in the borders too. I think you can strike a happy medium.
One of my neighbours does this anyway, it’s called laziness.
Id love to grow wild flowers where my lawn is. Id also love to grow grass there. Its just a mess of weeds and moss that seem indestructible. Third year on the bounce to try and get a sensible lawn. Now considering pulling it all up and putting down artificial grass.
No because it looks fucking untidy and I can’t find the dog shit to pick up before I step in it
Fuck off, I will but have you seen the shit they’re doing to cows? PUTTING FUCKING METHANE MASKS ON THEM, to “save the environment” eat my arse tory bastards
Lets see what the old people do, everyone near me has immaculate lawns.