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The first image looks like recently cut grass.
Maybe Belgian people can tell use if Liège's grassy tracks are cut every week but it doesn't look so as it is a beautiful green and dense in herbs. It would probably be full of flowers in a few weeks.
The second image is already full of flowers and diverse plants. It is a bit hard to identified as the focus is not on them but the grasses are tall enough to make fruits which is very healthy compared to manicured lawn and common clover's flowers are everywhere. I saw also a kind of white flower I can't recognised.
I don't see any issue with the example you show and I have not seen issue with the ones I saw in real life. Maybe you can talk more of your experience to help us understand the limitation you see.
Maybe I'm seeing a problem where there wasn't one! I hadn't noticed the diversity in the second picture. Most of the tram tracks around me have gravel or concrete between them, I'm just dreaming about what could replace that.
Well the focus is well done which makes the grassy background almost disappeared. But from what I saw in Lyon and Strasbourg grassy tracks does have diversity but also the part that are recent are less pretty. They need to go through two or three cycles of season to bloom in all the meaning of the term.
Are grassy tracks around you new?