Mow? No. Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow..

I took my little girl for a walk in the park last weekend – and it truly was a breath of fresh air in so many ways.

I was sitting on my phone, she was on her iPad and the TV was on. That was three screens amongst two people, and it was three screens too many.

So I jolted off the couch, wrapped her and myself up, got the dog on the lead and off we went for a walk absolutely nowhere in particular.

We ended up in the park and, to my delight, it was a sea of yellow and white. There were daisies and dandelions as far as the eye could see and even an abundance of bluebells which are everywhere this time of year

I couldn’t help but admire just how pretty nature is when you leave it to its own devices.

My daughter couldn’t help but pick almost every dead dandelion in the park and blow its little fuzzy seeds everyhere – and I couldn’t help joining in! We had so much fun that an elderly couple stopped to laugh at us and when we got chatting they told me that the reason there was so many wild flowers around was because of the #NoMowMay campaign which launched on April 29. This phenomenon is when gardeners all around the country stop cutting their grass for a month in order to help our bees, butterflies, wildlife and, in turn, us.

After doing more research I found out that on a single day in summer, one acre of wildflower meadow can contain three million flowers and produce 1 kg of nectar sugar for pollinators.

But since the 1930s, we have lost nearly 7.5 million acres of flower-rich meadows and pastures and just 1% of our countryside now provides this floral feast for pollinators.

So against this loss, habitats such as lawns have become increasingly important and gardeners are being encouraged to leave their lawnmower in the shed just for the month of May so smaller plants like clover, daisies and dandelions will get a chance to flower and give pollinators a head-start.

For more information on the #NoMowMay campaign visit www.nomowmay.plantlife.org.uk.