It took one whole growing season, but most of our lawn is clover this year. Last summer I bought pounds and pounds of clover seed and was somewhat disappointed with how the lawn didn't fill in. What I was missing was patience.
I also need patience while mowing our lawn now, because, by design, it attracts bees and insects I think are bees (an entomologist am I not). We have an electric mower so I'm not sure they can hear creeping up on them.
I keep a sharp lookout as I mow since I can appreciate the irony of my murdering them in the clover patches I planted to attract them, but I suspect they wouldn't see that at all.
I am a big believer in Give Bees a Chance and the better that we are at that, the better off we could be. There's an exhibit currently in a Liverpool museum that I'll never get to see but I wish I might that makes a cogent argument for the importance of bees.
The article seems to me to be engaging and informative if not quite the full Monty
-bill kenny
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