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Growing your lawn for wildlife

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited November 2021
    I have grown an unintentional forgetmenot lawn. With the wet year every fgmn seed seemed to germinate. It should look pretty crazy in May. Emerging mason bees should be happy. 🐝
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Our "lawn" is full of flowering cyclamen and daisies at the mo.  It's very pretty.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    My "lawn" consists of daisies, buttercup, dandelion, clover, plantain, celandine, forgetmenot, 1 or 2 others ( and some grass too of course ;)
    Suits us and our wildlife..



  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Our "lawn" has been a wildflower one for many many years.
    It has clover, plantains, bugle, daisy, buttercups, birds foot trefoil,  to name just a few.
    We are happy with it as it does bring in insects and birds
    but we are aware that some will look at our "lawn" and think what a mess.
    However we know that we are doing the right thing and also the cutting of the "lawn" is very very rare.
    We love the bees that we see in the ground and on it.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ours has all sorts too but the only things flowering now are the daisies and cyclamens.

    We have a large space in the middle of our plot and by the pond that just has a couple of paths mown through it.  It's full or wild achillea, malva, assorted daisies with white and yellow flowers, just one wild orchid spotted so far and lots of plantain, clovers and sea holly.   Just buzzes with insects all summer.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Some of mine is left as meadow, some is mown  every few weeks for those plants that like a shorter turf and a  couple of small bits get mown more often, depending on growth rates. I mow round anything pretty that is in flower!
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