Would you like to reinvigorate your garden, see new species, and give nature a boost?

All you have to do is…

Nothing...

Simply resist the urge to cut the lawn. And the longer you leave it, the more benefits it will yield.  The conservation charity Plantlife started the “No Mow May” campaign in 2019, to encourage people to give up mowing their lawn for a month to create a home for flowers, bees and other vital pollinators.

If you’d rather not let your entire lawn return to a more natural state, Plantlife suggests aiming for a tiered lawn approach, as different lengths of grass will enable short-growing flowers to flourish alongside longer ones. 

Reducing the intensity of lawn-mowing can produce some unexpected benefits for us too. In 2019, the British Ecological Society found that reducing the intensity of lawn mowing can lead to increased biodiversity, economic savings, time savings and even the reduced presence of serious allergy-triggering weeds. Even a modest reduction in lawn mowing frequency can bring a host of environmental benefits: increased pollinators, increased plant diversity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, a longer, healthier lawn makes it more resistant to pests, weeds, and drought events.

Allowing plant diversity in urban lawns to increase has the knock-on effect of increasing the diversity of other organisms such as pollinators and herbivores.

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