Decades of regular mowing left my front lawn looking bare and sterile, writes Jo Cartmell. But in fact, the exhausted, infertile soil made it the perfect place for a host of wild flowers to take up residence - some from planted seed, others blown-in, or from long buried seed lying dormant in the soil. And after that, the butterflies ...
Nearby wild - how I turned my lawn into a mini-meadow Jo Cartmell | 27th April 2015 Ethical Living Natural World Ecology UK ox-eye-daisies-cut.jpg Decades of regular mowing left my front lawn looking …