{"id":106532,"date":"2019-04-24T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-you-should-turn-your-lawn-into-a-meadow\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:04:21","slug":"why-you-should-turn-your-lawn-into-a-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-you-should-turn-your-lawn-into-a-meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should turn your lawn into a meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMost lawns are biodiversity deserts, but there is a simple way to encourage nature \u2013 and you don\u2019t even have to ditch the mowerMy garden sings its own song. It starts after the dawn chorus with the honeybees, followed by the heavier buzz of the bumbles, punctuated by the hoverflies\u2019 higher pitch. You can even sometimes hear the rustle and creak of beetles as evening comes. To lie among it, eyes closed, is to hear something exquisite.My garden sings this song because it is allowed to. I have long been a proponent of neglecting lawns to nurture nature, as Margaret Renkl recently made the case for in the New York Times \u2013 and there isn\u2019t a manicured strip of green that doesn\u2019t ache to do the same. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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