3 Minute Guide to Creating a Wildlife Lawn
If you’re a person who wants an exemplary lawn that looks like it has been lifted from a bowling green, then creating a wildlife lawn might not be for you. But these days many gardeners are doing their best to develop a bio-diverse garden than can make a comfortable home for our endangered wildlife – such as bees, dragonflies and other flying insects and birds.
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There are some unexpected advantages of developing a lawn that is for wildlife such as the fact that you won’t need to put so much work into it’s maintenance. They’ll be no more getting onto your hands and knees to identify and manually remove any unwanted weeds or moss. You won’t need to keep aerating or mow as often as a pedigree lawn requires.
What is a wildlife lawn?
Although most lawns have been created to provide people with something nice to look at and to utilise when entertaining, the wildlife lawn brings an entirely different aspect along with it.
Wildlife lawns are cultivated specifically to welcome insects such as bees and also birds. They do not just include grass, but they include plants and flowers.
One of the reasons that bees have been declining in numbers over the years is because we have opted for the highly maintained lawn in recent times. Prior to this there was lot more clover on grass and this is what attracts bees.
Although bees are keen on pretty much any type of flower, it’s not every type of flower that is appropriate to be part of a lawn. Many plants cannot endure being walked on and definitely cannot cope with the viciousness of a lawnmower.
Which plants are best for a wildlife lawn?
The flowers that can cope with being in a wildlife lawn, and being walked on are clover, dandelions and thyme. Bees and other pollinators are interested in these and they’ll be tough enough to withstand it, to boot!
The best approach for getting your lawn ready for wildlife is to over seed it with suitable plants such as clover. Not only will the bees feel like they’re in heaven, but those plants grow relatively short.
Before you know it, you’ll have made a paradise haven for bees and other wildlife to enjoy what is their natural environment.