Dave 123
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@User9609 and @MikeG
A little story about my father in law. He used to have a house building company, wildlife could bugger off. He now owns a caravan park, the grass used to be sprayed with Estemone (a selective turf herbicide) in the middle of the day, thousands of bees would die.
Come 20 years forward to now and his 'lawn' at home is full of clover, dandelion, daisies, self heal etc- he's now in to wildlife photography and he's worked out that flowers and seed attract the wildlife. The caravan park now has daisies etc too.
It's good that we now live in more enlightened times and that people can see things a little differently.
As you know, I'm responsible for a Striped monoculture lawn, but I actually weed it by hand, I won't used pesticides on it.
We do get lots of pied wagtail on here and the sparrowhawks often rip pigeons apart on the lawn, and there is a strong population of blackbirds that help themselves to worms, so it's not totally barren!
As a little aside, we get lots of goldfinch perching on the stone buildings, the stone is Ketton stone, it's quite fine and sandy grit. I think the goldfinch nibble off bits to use as grist in their crop.
A little story about my father in law. He used to have a house building company, wildlife could bugger off. He now owns a caravan park, the grass used to be sprayed with Estemone (a selective turf herbicide) in the middle of the day, thousands of bees would die.
Come 20 years forward to now and his 'lawn' at home is full of clover, dandelion, daisies, self heal etc- he's now in to wildlife photography and he's worked out that flowers and seed attract the wildlife. The caravan park now has daisies etc too.
It's good that we now live in more enlightened times and that people can see things a little differently.
As you know, I'm responsible for a Striped monoculture lawn, but I actually weed it by hand, I won't used pesticides on it.
We do get lots of pied wagtail on here and the sparrowhawks often rip pigeons apart on the lawn, and there is a strong population of blackbirds that help themselves to worms, so it's not totally barren!
As a little aside, we get lots of goldfinch perching on the stone buildings, the stone is Ketton stone, it's quite fine and sandy grit. I think the goldfinch nibble off bits to use as grist in their crop.