The missus May not like it, but I do 🙂

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  1. Did my part: Haven’t mowed in three months. Went even further and haven’t mowed for the entire time I lived in a second level apartment 😉

  2. I personally just changed large parts of my garden into wild flower patches with a couple of walk ways in grass between them. Not only May has pollinators in my garden but the entire summer through. It’s kinda nice, changed my gasoline mower into a hand pushed one too to entirely minimize the ecological impact of maintaining my garden. I have an electrical string trimmer too to do the edges now and then or to clear out the flower remains at the end of summer when the flowers are gone.

  3. Honestly, there’s a beauty to these flowers and slightly taller grass. The grass perk in front of my apartment building is also not being mowed right now and it looks much better to have these spots of white and yellow instead of the green monotones.

  4. We do some mowing because otherwise the clover does not bloom because it gets no light. We noticed that with mowing we have so much more clover flowers and many more bees.

    We do leave some borders though that are unmowed. There, the dandilion goes wild

  5. Same here with a crapload of inheemse wilde planten and struiken and bomen. Nice to read some appreciative posts on this subject.

    Nature and biodiversity need our support.

  6. I did not knew this was a thing, but I am happy to see they let the grass grow out, looks more real

  7. It’s a 50/50 in my garden. Mowed around the hyacinths (yes, I’ve got a miniature Hallerbos in my garden), and will probably keep that up as those patches of unmowed garden are absolutely bristling with life. Might add some seeds for summer flowers to it as well.

  8. I take out all the ‘paardenbloemen’ though, they tend to destroy everything else here and they’re pretty ugly once done. In your case they seem to be able to not kill the other plants fortunately.

  9. Doing the same. Large part (1/3th) of my garden is mowed only twice a year, rest max once every 3-4 weeks.

    Neighbours give me stink eye because ‘azoeveil onkroidj menneken!’, but all the birds are fouraging on my lawn and not in their green desert, wonder why that is.

  10. I mow twice a year; Once early june and once in september. Trying to get more wildflower in my lawn.
    My neighbour gives me the side-eye every once in a while. But I just brush him off with:
    Please don’t mind the weeds. I’m just feeding the bees.

  11. Me as a nature lover 😍😍

    Me as an extreme case of hayfever 🤮🤧😴🤯😭

    And before you say: take some pills.
    They tend to soften the symptoms, but doesn’t cure them.

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