What is this plant that has taken over my lawn?

[Dave7]

Think I asked this last year but can't remember the answer.
This year it is really taking over.
The bees love them.
I am torn between letting nature take its course and getting rid of them.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

I think it's clover, I have it on my lawn too. Looks nicer than the grass but that doesn't take much in my garden.

 

[vickster]

Clover

 

[PaulSB]

Clover 🍀. Let the bees enjoy it. The flowers will die off in 2-3 weeks and you can mow again. It will keep flowering through the summer.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I am torn between letting nature take its course and getting rid of them.

Keep them, they're great. As PaulSB says, the flowers only last a few weeks then you can cut the grass as usual. We're trying to get our back garden to look like that by sowing seed last year and they've only just started to flower. At least keep them for the bees' sake.🐝

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I've been sowing crimson clover in plugs and planting them out over the last few months. I have lots of white clover aswell and the crimson ones look like spots of jewels in amongst all the grasses. This is in a paddock type area, where I am trying to encourage wildflowers.

 

[Blue Hills]

you're in clover as the saying goes dave.
enjoy it drink a nice beer to the happy bees.

 

[mustang1]

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Think I asked this last year but can't remember the answer.
This year it is really taking over.
The bees love them.
I am torn between letting nature take its course and getting rid of them.

But whether you keep the flowers or get rid of them, that will still be nature taking it's course because you are also, well, natural. Suppose there was some animal that eats that kind of flower, many people would call that natural. But if a human does it, people do not consider that to be natural.

 

[Sharky]

Before you mow the lawn, have a look for four leaf clovers. They are supposed to be lucky.

 

[postman]

For some reason this year,we have clover and buttercups,and for the first time I am not bothered lawn does not need to look like a billiard table.Must be getting old.

 

[Gillstay]

For some reason this year,we have clover and buttercups,and for the first time I am not bothered lawn does not need to look like a billiard table.Must be getting old.

No sensible, why carry on this Victorian hang over, aside from making people buy mowers, fertilizers, moss killers.........

 

[jowwy]

No sensible, why carry on this Victorian hang over, aside from making people buy mowers, fertilizers, moss killers.........

Nobody is “making” you buy anything……its your choice to mow or not to mow

 

[Gillstay]

Nobody is “making” you buy anything……its your choice to mow or not to mow

Aah ! The wrong word, would influencing you to buy suit better ?

 

[jowwy]

Aah ! The wrong word, would influencing you to buy suit better ?

Not really…….you decide what you buy through your own choices

 

[Dave7]

Before you mow the lawn, have a look for four leaf clovers. They are supposed to be lucky.

It took me nearly 3 weeks to check every single clover.
Not one with 4 leaves.