Join gardeners and say “no” to mowing your garden this May. This will to help our bees, butterflies, wildlife and us with Plantlife No mow May! Register with Plantlife No mow may.
Provide a feast for pollinators, tackle pollution, reduce urban heat extremes, and lock away atmospheric carbon below ground. Don’t mow this May and let it grow!
This Spring we are looking for the most beautiful, biodiverse front gardens in the Ealing borough. Enter our Biodiverse Front Gardens and Balconies Competition with your lovely green spaces. It is free for residents to enter and there are cash prizes up for grabs for each categories.
Why do we need No Mow May?
We’ve lost approximately 97% of flower-rich meadows since the 1930’s and with these gone, vital food is needed by pollinators, like bees and butterflies.
However your lawn can help! A healthy lawn with some long grass and wildflowers benefits wildlife, tackles pollution and can even lock away carbon below ground. With over 20 million gardens in the UK, even the smallest grassy patches add up to a significant proportion of our land which, if managed properly, can deliver enormous gains for nature, communities and the climate. Plantlife has provided a No mow may lawn guide.
Free the wildflowers in your lawn so they can grow wild and provide a feast for pollinators, tackle pollution, and lock away atmospheric carbon below ground. Here are some easy tips for increasing wildflowers in your lawn.
Plantlife’s No Mow May campaign doesn’t ask much. In fact, it asks you to not do anything at all, just lock up your lawnmower on May 1st and let the wild flowers in your lawn bloom, providing a feast of nectar for our hungry pollinators. Download the poster and signs display in your window.
In fact, its good to not always mow all year round and let areas of grass grow in places and open spaces . So you can also continue with Let it Bloom June. Grasses are a hugely important food source for many bees and moth caterpillars and provide breeding areas for butterflies. Ealing Council supported this last summer with The borough is letting it bloom in June.
So get involved and let the flowers bloom!
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