Wild flowers

[Tigger1895]

I live in an an estate. Everyone keeps their lawn and garden impeccably. Recently people have started wild flower gardens outside their property on the grass pathway. To me it looks unkept and unsightly.
I feel if you want bees to feed why not encourage them into your own garden instead of making the pathway look like you can’t be bothered mowing that piece of grass. AIBU

Bees need all the help they can get. And wild flowers are beautiful - readjust your expectations of what ‘proper’ looks like.

You mean this sort of thing?
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I like it, adds colour, unlike boring old grass.

I like the wildflowers

YABVVVVVVU and weird!

Why does the state of other people’s gardens/pathways bother you? Are you the neighbourhood tidy garden police or something?

We need more wildflowers. They’re lovely and the bees need them.

Wildflowers are so pretty. I do weed the sticky buds, rosebay willow herb and bindweed from my garden (as well as the fucking nettles) but the cranesbill and toadflax are more than welcome.

Glad not everyone is like you. There wouldn't be wild anything left in our neighbourhoods.

Have they definitely been starting wildflower gardens or have the wild flowers been self seeding, being wildflowers and all. I love seeing all the wildflowers on the streets around me - I don't think anyone is planting them but people aren't killing them so you can see them spread year on year.

We need more wildflowers. They’re lovely and the bees need them.

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM probably due to the No Mow May initiative. We don't need any more. Please mow your lawns people!

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM

That’s a GREAT thing! What do you mean “invaded”? I’ve had several bees inside lately - just usher them out to a nearby flower head and be happy they’re around.

I love wildflowers!
Surely this is a good thing?
I have lots planted in containers this year.

@mustlovegin

We need more wildflowers. They’re lovely and the bees need them.

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM probably due to the No Mow May initiative. We don't need any more. Please mow your lawns people!

Those pesky bees, pollinating our gardens and fields....

I threw a load of wildflower seeds in a big tub next to our house and they're growing well (not flowering yet though). I visited a wildflower area last week and the colours were beautiful: vivid reds, bright blues, vibrant yellows and brilliant whites. They don't make the area look untidy at all; they brighten it up and make it look summery and cheerful.

Re-educate your taste OP. The 60s and 70s are long gone.

@mustlovegin

We need more wildflowers. They’re lovely and the bees need them.

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM probably due to the No Mow May initiative. We don't need any more. Please mow your lawns people!

If bees don't thrive, we will starve. It's as simple as that.

Even Jeremy Clarkson gets this.

I think it sounds nice. And there’s a difference between a small patch of wildflowers and just leaving a large garden space to overgrow and become out of control.

Do you want it all minimalist with neutral colours and grey planters with a grey fence and grey front door?

No colour
No irregular shapes

All just symetrical with clean lines and GREYER than a grey thing??

How lovely 🐝

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM
Fantastic! ❤️

Sounds lovely to me but even if I didn't like it much, I couldn't care less really. It's none of my business - or yours

We are being invaded by bees and insects ATM
Great news!

Please mow your lawns people!
If I lived near you I would be slacker than I already am mowing my lawn. Then I would chuck some extra bee friendly wild seed around - just to annoy you.

You are being so, so unreasonable OP.

I have a farm and I’ve rewilded a six-acre paddock. With the tractor I have just cut a narrow strip/path through it so I can get through, but beyond that I’ve let it go. It is absolutely magical. It is full of deer, birds of every kind from tiny garden birds to birds of prey, rabbits and field mice. But they very best thing is the hum like a Lancaster bomber of the millions of bees flying from each of the beautiful wildflowers. How can that be a bad thing? I walk through it every day.

Yabu!!

Wildflowers are beautiful. Much prettier than “perfect lawns”

@Onairjunkie

I am utterly jealous.

My DH is like the op. It's a constant battle inspired garden. Sigh.

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