Let 2026 be the year you do No Mow May!

No Mow May is upon us! If like many of us you struggle with the idea of an unkempt, overgrown lawn, may we suggest ‘intentional framing’ – i.e. mowing a border around the long grass patch, or cutting a path through it. Psychologically, it makes all the difference! It reminds you, as you look out of the window and think of your to do list, that neatly bordered patch of grass is intentionally long. It says to your visitor, “these people are not slovenly or lazy gardeners – that part is clearly wild by design”. And it says to all those insects, so important to our ecosystem, that you’re just tidying up the edges, but you are not bringing in the bulldozers to their habitat at this busy time of year – please, insects, carry on about your essential business...