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

@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!

We need more bees not less of the same amount. We need to encourage as many bees and bugs as possible

YABU and you sound very like the pearl-clutching brigade in my town who are moaning about the beautiful wildflower verges which have been planted here.

Your taste for ‘impeccable’ gardening is dated. Go and watch the life teeming in a wildflower patch and re-evaluate your judgements.

Love wildflowers, we have a whole patch of them in our garden. Bees need help.

We loved no mow may so much we are going for the year long version! So much nicer to see all these wild spaces.

You sound like my mother. Whenever she moves into a new house she removes any plants she deems ‘unsightly’. I’ll never forget when she ripped down a mature wisteria off the front of a house. (Or forgive). You need to adjust your mind set OP, these things help.

Wildflower borders/ patches are both beautiful and much needed!

Bees are in dire straits after the v cold spell in May. You just have to get used to it.
In Norway, I think it is, they don't cut their road verges until autumn for this reason.
We've left an area of lawn long this year. Imagine the petrol savings from reducing lawnmower use (or electric savings) if we all did that.

Yep, did no mow May and then left 25% of a section iof my garden unmown and have sown wildflower seeds. i agree I have seen many many many more bees this year. It's great!

YABU. Not mowing helps insect populations, which are essential for a healthy ecosystem. I'm so pleased this is becoming common now. Also it's none of your business what other people do with their lawns and gardens.

[quote mogtheexcellent]@Onairjunkie

I am utterly jealous.

My DH is like the op. It's a constant battle inspired garden. Sigh.[/quote]
Come for a therapeutic wander in my wilderness. It’s so lovely. As you walk, things whizz into the deep grasses to keep out of your way. It’s just so very, very alive.

I can’t stand manicured anything. In the garden I keep the grass short but the beds are bursting and I have a few wildflower patches there too. What I love most is that things are growing in the wild bit that I know no human put there. We have a huge patch of lofty foxgloves in one corner that some little creature brought in.

yabu op
you can't be serious

@BarbarianMum

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

This

@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!

Insects have declined by 70% in 20 years.

No insects no life on Earth. Even Jeremy Clarkson can see that’s a problem. Get over yourself.

You sound like an insufferable snob who doesn't have the intelligence to understand how important bees are to the world. Actually like Hyacinth Bucket.

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!

😆😆😆 You can’t invade your own planet.

New flash: They die, we die.

There is a fabulous field near us the has remained unmown this year, we visit 2 or 3 times a week and watching it change and develop has been a joy.

In may the buttercups were the main event, then June the dandelion clocks, now it’s all the wonderful grasses that I haven’t seen since I was a kid in the 70s when you knew which ones you could run your fingers up to make a little posy out of the seeds. The starling population has increased, we’ve seen far more hedgehogs.

And you think this is a bad thing? Wow, or are you just trying to wind people up on a Sunday morning?

i love walking through the meadows near me, full of wild flowers and butterflies, it brings me so much joy

Here, have a picture, it’s stunning

YAB so ridiculously U that I think you must actually be a bee doing a reverse to prove a point.

Yes YABU! Let's live in concrete jungles with plastic grass

Tiny postage stamp gardens with grass manicured to an inch of it’s life and short sparse grass bordering paths looks terrible and wildflowers sound like they are adding much more life. The area I’m in has been sowing wildflower seeds on road verges and areas of public land and it looks much nicer than the weedy grass that was there before.

I am one of those people. I have wildflower growing outside my front door along the path and my lawn has weeds I don't remove because it's good for the environment.
I can do whatever I want on my property! I don't like the same sterile look with fake grass and massive patio areas but I wouldn't dream of telling you to change it.

Our small back lawn (so called) is probably 50% non grass. There’s a really big patch of buttercups which dh has been strictly instructed - on pain of death, or at least no dinner - not to mow until they’re over.
They’re glorious at the moment - I love buttercups!

I've got lavender welsh poppies roses nigella peony daisys mint
Plus other flowering shrubs and we have lots of bees in our garden.

We do have a mowed lawn but I'm
Thinking of wildflowers for next year in the drive as I have a nice spare bit of mulched soil

Actually
I'm definitely doing it 🐝🐛🦋🐞🕷🌺🌸🌼🌻

I have sown a wildflower garden on the roof of my shed and in my front garden, it doesn't look neat at all but looks lovely.

We have a buff tailed bumblebee nest in the garden this year, it's amazing watching them with their constant flights in and out of the nest and how they co-ordinate so they don't bash into each other on the way in/out.