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All: At present, our regularly mowed, but rather unkempt front lawn boasts (probably the neighbours think, suffers from) a range of modest flowers that have colonized from other parts -- excluding three of our own or nearby garden escapes. We?ve never used pesticides thereon, or really tried to nourish it as it should be. These are in unsystematic order, probably not with the latest nomenclature: Common Dandelion, Taraxacum officianalis (the only one we regularly dig up -- fewer than on some neighbouring lawns); Mouse-ear Chickweed, Cerastium vulgatum; Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans; Field Speedwell, Veronica arvense; Corn Speedwell, V. Offiicianalis; Creeping Buttercup, Rannunculus repans; White Clover, Trifolium repens; Field Mint, Mentha arvense; Ox-eye Daisy, Crysanthemum vulgare; Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Hieracium pilosella. None of these is at all exciting -- they?re everywhere in the province -- all of them are European or Eurasian ?weeds? and some are warned against. We once had some (native?) Bluet, Houstonia caerulea, but it?s gone -- out-competed? We like the "weeds" and there will be more to come. We usually let patches of them get some growth and flower before mowing them, except the Ox-eyes, which we confine to edges. Note that three of them are creepers (repens, reptans), and their foliage avoids the lawnmower -- (un)natural selection in action. Altogether, more fun than a uniform, well manicured turf. Cheers, Ian McLaren
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