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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Still, (entirely) green lawns in Europe are a result of cutting the lawn all the time. If we give it more time to grow between each time it's cut it'll grow into a colourful oasis of all kinds of flowers that are both beautiful and allow insects to thrive. It doesn't always make sense - if you want to lay down on the grass for a nap you'd rather have an even surface of grass and relatively fewer insects - but there's too many green lawns around here as well.

My family started transforming the lawn in my childhood home into a field of flowers a few years ago, and the transformation is fantastic. Every year there are new flowers popping up. When cutting the lawn it helps to leave the cuttings a couple of days or so to dry, so that the seeds have a chance to fall off and enter the soil.

The tram track in the bottom picture looks like it's doing good. A bunch clovers, and they probably won't discourage other wildflowers as/if they appear. There seems to be some white flowers there already.