🐝 People are being encouraged to leave their lawn mowers in the shed as part of a “No Mow May” campaign
, including wild strawberry, wild garlic, and rare species such as adder’s-tongue fern, meadow saxifrage, snake’s-head fritillary and eyebright.
A typical lawn in the survey had 17 daisies on a one metre square patch, and a smattering of buttercups and dandelions, with germander speedwell and field forget-me-nots the next most likely plants to be seen. Just eight dandelions could produce enough nectar to meet an adult bumblebee’s baseline energy needs, the charity said.Ian Dunn, chief executive of Plantlife, said: “These results demonstrate that our call to No Mow May has set seed and laid down deep roots.
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