wild lawn
Elevating your standard garden lawn into a rich wild flower meadow through careful maintenance
· Zero initial cost: We work with the lawn you already have, so there is no ‘installation’ phase. Development is done through a program of maintenance
· Slow and steady: Lawns work by having 2 or 3 thick grasses dominate an area. Through well-timed mowing and scarifying we work to weaken their stranglehold and open up spaces for new species.
· Supplemented over time: Once these spaces have opened up we slowly begin to build diversity in the scheme through Autumn seeding and adding new plants in the Spring.
· Amazing for wildlife: This takes ‘no mow May’ to another level – with an increased mixture of fine grasses and flowers bugs have a variety of nectar sources to choose from and pockets to shelter in.
· Low carbon installation: Forget heavy new materials and skipping the old lawn. This scheme works through the additions of lightweight seed and plant plugs, keeping the installation footprint to a minimum.
Installation
No upfront Cost
No initial outlay, simply ask us to start a program of maintenance on the lawn.
Maintenance
(from £45 per sqm, per year)
We treat this in a similar way to a classic hay meadow with cutbacks in Spring, Summer and Autumn. Alongside this we add new plug plants in the Spring, seeds in the Winter and carry out two weeding visits in the growing season.