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Flowers for lawns
As the Sheffield BUGS project established, lots of other plant species as well as grasses live in domestic lawns, but if they are kept close-mown, you often don't realise they are there. Another recent citizen science survey by Plantlife of 5000 1m square lawn quadrats found 203 species in total.
The plants below are selected as flowers that can reasonably be expected to do well if established into an established lawn, provided the grass isn't over-fertilised and growing rampant. They are all short and look well on a typically mown lawn. Lawn plants have to be tough enough to withstand a certain amount of trampling, and many of them grow their leaves as a flat rosette on the ground surface. Others such as birds-foot trefoil can twine up through grass and will cope with a longer sward. For more background have a look at our myths pages on lawns and fertility. Plants which thrive better in longer grass are covered in our page on meadow flowers here.
(also a sun plant) (also a sun plant) (also a shade plant)
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1369110.jpg "Mouse-ear hawkweed Pilosella officinarum flower Photo: By Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14098315")
Lawn flowers
To read more about these species click on the picture or the link below.
On the left is a photo of a group of cowslips which are growing on a heavily walked path in a meadow. Because the plants' leaves are in a rosette closely pressed to the ground, they have survived and spread despite quite heavy trampling. The flowers are just appearing, and when fully emerged, people see them and avoid walking over them.
On the left is a photo of a group of cowslips which are growing on a heavily walked path in a meadow. Because the plants' leaves are in a rosette closely pressed to the ground, they have survived and spread despite quite heavy trampling. The flowers are just appearing, and when fully emerged, people see them and avoid walking over them.
Lawn flowers
To read more about these species click on the picture or the link below.
Flowers for lawns and meadows
As the Sheffield BUGS project established, lots of other plant species as well as grasses live in domestic lawns, but if they are kept close-mown, you often don't realise they are there. Another recent citizen science survey by Plantlife of 5000 1m square lawn quadrats found 203 species in total.
The plants below are selected as flowers that can reasonably be expected to do well if established into an established lawn, provided the grass isn't over-fertilised and growing rampant. They are all short and look well on a typically mown lawn. Lawn plants have to be tough enough to withstand a certain amount of trampling, and many of them grow their leaves as a flat rosette on the ground surface. Others such as birds-foot trefoil can twine up through grass and will cope with a longer sward. For more background have a look at our myths pages on lawns and fertility. Plants which thrive better in longer grass are covered in our page on meadow flowers here.
(also a shade plant)
(also a sun plant)
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