No Mow May: Six Bee-Rilliant Reasons To Let Your Lawn Go Wild

Some experts reccomend keeping your lawn wild until August.

Good news for tired gardeners: no-mow May is upon us.

Experts like Monty Don recommend leaving our strimmers and mowers in the shed this month – even as late as the end of June – and letting our gardens grow wild instead.

Here are 13 bee-rilliant (sorry) reasons to lay down the blades:

1) Dandelions are brilliant for bees

Because of their open shape, bees find it really easy to extract much-needed pollen from yellow dandelions.

Calling the so-called “weed” our “most undervalued wildflower,” the Scottish Wildlife Trust added they also fuel other pollinators like butterflies, hover flies, day flying moths and solitary........

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