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Countryside charity urges gardeners to let wild flowers flourish

3 May 2023

We should all keep our lawnmowers in the shed this summer and let the wild flowers bloom! That is the message from the Berkshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) which wants people in the Royal County to help with CPRE’s mission of ‘nature recovery’ by letting the grass grow.

The wild flowers that have appeared in our lawns during the spring have not only livened up the grass but they provide essential habitats for bees and butterflies. The numbers of pollinators are in decline here in Berkshire and throughout Britain, and they need all the help they can get.

CPRE Berkshire Chairman Greg Wilkinson explains: “Gardens are important wildlife havens and if we let our lawns grow in the coming weeks we will be doing nature a big favour. Allowing dandelions and daisies to bring a splash of colour to our lawns is also the easiest and most practical way to enable to enable more bees and butterflies to survive.”

CPRE also wants local councils and landowners in Berkshire to join in this campaign for nature by leaving parks and other green spaces such as roadside verges to grow wild. The countryside charity is supporting the “No Mow May” campaign for re-wilding by Plantlife and the Wildlife Trust.

To find out more about how you can encourage the recovery of Britain’s depleted nature, and to support CPRE’s campaign work for our local countryside, please go to the charity’s website www.cpreberkshire.org.uk and follow CPRE Berkshire on Twitter and Facebook.

-ENDS