There was an interesting article, think it was in the New York Times, about growing wildflowers in your lawn, or anyway not mowing and weed killing the lawn, then the above popped up. The wildflowers encourage the insects the hedgehogs eat. The little sanctuary in Pickering for hedgehogs is sending all their inmates out to the wider world this weekend, do hope they survive.
It is the individual act of saving species by devoted people that makes this world go round.
Notice the disapproval of 'Extinction Rebellion' protest on a few blogs but would only add that protest is just that!
But back to holding onto what we have got left, trailing through the large bed is lamium purpureum or red nettle backed by white tulips.
The dead nettles are such pretty flowers, Yellow Archangel, white dead nettle, often called deaf or dumb nettles according to Grigson. A dandelion pokes its head up as does a lost wallflower - tut, tut. Deadnettles are of course stingless unlike the real nettle that creeps through the fence, but you can at this time of year make nettle soup from.
On The Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
It is the individual act of saving species by devoted people that makes this world go round.
Notice the disapproval of 'Extinction Rebellion' protest on a few blogs but would only add that protest is just that!
But back to holding onto what we have got left, trailing through the large bed is lamium purpureum or red nettle backed by white tulips.
The dead nettles are such pretty flowers, Yellow Archangel, white dead nettle, often called deaf or dumb nettles according to Grigson. A dandelion pokes its head up as does a lost wallflower - tut, tut. Deadnettles are of course stingless unlike the real nettle that creeps through the fence, but you can at this time of year make nettle soup from.
On The Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
Our lawn does get mowed, but it is weeds and moss in reality. We just try to keep the ticks at bay.
ReplyDeleteOur lawn also gets mown of course though I am angling for a small patch to be left unmown, under the holly tree. I think ticks are becoming more common in this country, especially with the deer but Lucy hasn't picked up one yet.
ReplyDeleteLiving next to a field means that my lawn is more weed, especially dandelions, than grass. But it does also mean that in dry spells it tends to keep greener. As to ticks - Tess has only ever picked up one.
ReplyDeleteOur lawn was an old field, had a few bluebells in it last year, but the ever present dandelion just flows through the landscape at the moment.
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