This project to encourage people to let their lawns grow wild for the month of May is a nice idea. Having done that you then lob a tennis ball into your lawn and count the number of wildflowers that have grown within a square metre around the ball.
Submit your count to Plantlife and they will give you a number: how many pollinators your lawn could support if you let it grow like this each year.
I haven't done this actual survey yet—it's new this year, I think—but one year I counted 214 wild flowering plant species in my garden.
Good Morning Saturday 27th April 2024
apple trees not flowering this year. Anyone else?