gerry daly: why not try a wildflower lawn?

If you really like the idea of flower tapestries, why not use the lawn as a model of moss --free, weed-
The free green lawn has been popular for a long time, but the wildflower lawn is an attractive option.
From the beginning: this is not a wildflower grass.
A piece of grass grows very high and is not cut down until the end of June or July, just like a traditional farm grass.
Wildflower lawns are equivalent to grazing pastures.
You can use a normal mower instead of letting the animals dump the grass.
The management of the wildflower lawn is completely different and sounds like an evil saying.
It is very easy to transform the existing lawn into a lawn that encourages the growth of wild flowers.
In any case, many lawns are already half of the wildflower lawn, so why not go the rest of the road as well, the wildflower lawn can still be used for all activities, it does not need a large area.
Manage a wildflower lawn, wide --
The leaf plants on the lawn should be favored.
The first thing you can do is stop killing them.
Weedkillers are never used on wild flowers and flats.
Now the weeds have become wild flowers: Daisy, clover, foot pedal of the bird, hair butter, dandelion, shrewwell, self-healing, dog violet, Eagle mouth grass and cow.
Some of them have appeared on most lawns that have not been sprayed in the past two years. Broad-
The general leaf plant roots are relatively deep and can grow and bloom well with little or no feeding.
They are the best.
Low-fat drainage soil conducive to flowers.
When weedkillers are not used, these plants will have the upper hand on the grass and gradually increase the number.
With the increase in the proportion of wildflower plants, the flower display on the wildflower lawn is getting better and better.
Under this system, it usually takes two or more years to establish a reasonable display.
As the years go by, the display will be better.
Wildflower lawns are also great for wildlife, not only for wildflowers, but also for countless insects and other animals that make a living with wildflowers.
It is better than a meadow because it allows birds to enter the soil, such as foraging.
The mowing should start with a mowing in January, February and.
When growth is restored, it needs to be trimmed more often between two and three weeksweek intervals.
This change depends on the growth rate of the lawn.
If there is good growth, it needs to avoid large-scale construction more frequently.
It may be difficult to reduce.
As the wildflower lawn matures, the growth rate of the grass decreases, it will be easier to trim, and the frequency of pruning will be reduced.
There is a recovery period after each trim, that is, there are very few flowers, but this becomes less noticeable as the wildflower lawn matures.
On the other hand, cutting off the flower head regularly makes the plant grow much longer than natural flowering.
In order to gradually reduce soil fertility, the grass should be removed from the wildflower lawn until about the May Day period, because the grass was still strong until then.
After this, in the period when grass grows less, the mown material should be allowed to fall back on the sward, in order to return some nutrients and return the broad seeds
Leaf plants encourage their spread.
Wildflower lawns are suitable for informal gardens.
Wildflower lawn is easier to maintain, just need to trim less than half of the top
Green lawn.
It also saves the workload and cost of spraying weeds and Moss as well as lawn feeding.
Garden wildlife is encouraged because you don\'t often trim the lawn.
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No matter what you call it, this alpine plant is a small gem.
It has flowers with four petals, a sign of its cabbage family members.
The color of the flower ranges from purple pink to dark purple.
It is the source of nectar and pollen that visits bees and early butterflies.
It is easy to grow from seeds or a bunch of cuttings.
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