What to do with strip of grass

[Borris]

This strip of grass is mine and it’s between the garden wall and the pavement. It’s about 1.2 m wide and about 7 m long.

It’s a pain to mow but I’m not sure what to do with it.

Others on our estate ripped it up and put gravel down, but I don’t feel that’s very wildlife friendly. Any ideas?

Why not plant some nice evergreen shrubs which flower?

I have just planted a similar strip with hundreds of daffodils and then I am now planting creeping thyme (thymus serpyllum) which is low growing and evergreen with flowers all summer. The daffodils will come up through the thyme next year.
I had lots of lovely comments about the daffodils this spring.
My strip is 0.5m × 12m and I planted 240 bulbs. You need a lot!

If it was me, I'd continue the hedge along it.

Plant something. More hedge or lots of lavender or salvia or potentilla - low maintenance drought tolerant plants that flower occasionally

If I plant stuff do I take up the turf first. Otherwise it seems like even trickier mowing. It seems a bit wide to continue the hedge. The existing hedge is maybe half the width of the grass

I would dig it up and plant loads of lavender. Great for the bees, low maintenance and beautiful scent and colour.

Yes take the turf up first to plant anything.

Is the space the existing hedge is planted in narrower than the strip of grass? Is that what you mean?

The hedge running the full length of the path (and blending in with the hedge at the other end) would look better visually, I think. Plus it would blend the differing border widths.

You could also under plant with bright spring flowers or tubs.

Could you make it a clover lawn? Wildlife love it and it doesn’t need mown

I'd take out the grass, put in lavender, sow a wildflower or clover mix. No need to mow again.

It’s a pain to mow but I’m not sure what to do with it.
I don't understand the problem. Just treat it like any other border and plant it with a load of low-maintenance plants e.g. shrubs, evergreens, perennials, grasses, groundcover, bulbs, etc.

Google "low maintenance borders" and you will get lots of suggestions.

A lavender hedge would be lovely.

What direction does the bed face?