Dibbydod
Can’t understand why all the upset over a patch of clovers and wild flowers , as nice as they are , they grow everywhere in abundance and always spring back , that’s what wild flowers do . It’s not as if you’d gone to a local Garden Centre and bought some lovely expensive flowering bedding plants which were coming along spectacularly then he drove over them ! Now that would be bad ! !
Actually they don’t grow everywhere and in abundance. That’s the problem. That’s why people are being encouraged to let their lawns grow wild during the spring. Insects need the food that flowers even as humble as clover provide. (Humbleness aside, ifyou look closely at clover flowers they’re actually very beautiful).
Ideally, then one would let the flowers make seed and drop it so not cut the lawn during the summer season either. Unfortunately, a lot of people can’t ‘deal with’ (i.e. tolerate) what they see as the untidiness.
In purely urban settings along tidy streets, this is understandable. There’s also the problem that if your lawn grows into a big thick thatch of wild plants it’s physically difficult to mow it in the autumn. We use scythes on our wild bits, rake up the hay, and then mow mechanically.