Mow May No

So now as June is here, we can now start mowing them lawns again after No Mow May. Say what? Yes, we have assigned another action or in this case a non-action for a month of the year. We have Movember for one example and of course the month we are entering is June, the Month of the Roses.

Now, I have to be honest here I never heard or knew that No Mow May existed. My son told me when I kind of lost the plot when I saw the garden looking like a meadow. No longer the manicured garden I loved to keep when my body was up to it. Now it is designated to a very enthusiastic gardener and student, my son.

So here it is higher than ever before, but with beautiful winding pathways that the grandchildren enjoy running through, I innocently asked, what the method is behind the madness. He told me “It is all about trying to save the insects and pollinators whose habitats are being destroyed by killing all the wild owers, which in turn will kill us o too!” e humble bumblebee is apparently responsible for a majority of all pollination and if they become extinct, much - if not all - of our food crops will die and therefore a world wide famine begins.

So, what did I notice in our unmanicured garden?

Believe it or not, for the rst time in a long time, wasps and even the humble bumblebee came into the kitchen, which many of us will remember from our youth as a daily occurrence. e buttercups were like yellow drops and splatters of paint across the lawn - or should I say meadow… e buzzing of insects and birds throughout the front and back gardens… Again a memory of bygone years. Are we not the dumbest of all the species? We are the only ones which have created and continue to create an environment that is toxic to ourselves. Cars that pollute our breathable air, plastic that takes hundreds of years to break down, and now all the sh we eat are full of small particles that are harming us, the humans who made the plastic! We are really quite stupid! While we might think we are the Kings of the planet, it won’t be long before there is no planet to be

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