No more lawns
Very much a work in progress
Increasingly, when I am out walking, I see mowed lawns disappearing and giving way to a wonderful profusion of wildflowers and grasses, that are fortunately no longer removed immediately from whereever they choose to grow.
This makes my heart sing.
There is nothing more boring, and actually downright unappealing to look at, than a lawn. And not only that, lawns are ecological dead zones. They consist of non-native turfgrass that attracts almost no inseccts and offers no habitat for birds or pollinators. They are the opposite of nature and a hindrance to biodiversity.
Moreover, lawns require an inordinate amount of care, water, fertilizer and pesticides, which then run off into the waterways, in order to grow – and ironically, they are then mowed every five minutes using fossil-fuel-guzzling, and air and noise polluting machinery.
The era of the mowed lawns are hopefully coming to an end.
Wildflowers and grasses, on the other hand, appear of their own accord and settle in environments where they are designed to survive, they are very diverse, are pollinator and bird magnets, are a joy to behold, and a poitive contribution to summers in the city.
Photos taken on 16 July in my neighbourhood
