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‘No mow May’ isn’t long enough

27 May 2024

4:00 PM

27 May 2024

4:00 PM

There’s one way of getting the look of the Chelsea Flower show winner, Ula Maria’s forest bathing garden, and that’s not to mow your lawn but let the flowers and long grass spring up. ‘This is not,’ I would say austerely to the neighbours if they hang over the wall to suggest a man who could cut the grass, ‘an unkempt and neglected space; it is immersive, relaxing and calming’.

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