Now and then, an unmown plot of grass becomes spectacularly beautiful with all sorts of wild flowers. I really think both the land and the humans on it are made better for it. We deprive ourselves, not only of cures for illnesses in every backyard, but also of the joys that nature provides if we let her. Great comment! I had no idea you were so OLD! lol, not as old as me though. I'm super OLD. I was out dancing with the best of them last night, clogging even, at a festival out in the boondocks, on spectacularly gorgeous land, sylphs in the skies. It's all good, ya know?
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I found it interesting to know things about clovers and the lack of them in a lot of yards now, although I have seen a small trend of some folks now trying to add them back in. Seems back in the 40s and 50s, the more clover seeds a bag of grass seed had in it, the more expensive it was, because people wanted that. THEN, came the poisons like round up that had been created for broad leaf grasses like DANDELIONS and the such and an unexpected side-effect, was it also killed the clovers. Unfortunately, that wasn't tragic enough for the industry to undo their blunder and so the clovers ended up as collateral damage in a lot of places. Little did they realize how much our honey bee population depended on the clovers. Ugh ! .... now people are scrambling to recover from THAT ! I had already studied that part, but that same summer that I let the backyard grow, I also got a chance to see this big patch of red top grass, which turns out to be another old grass that was included in the grass seed mix of yesteryear. Thing is, even where some still exists, we nearly never see the red tops since we mow it all too fast. I found it so beautiful, especially when the sunlight kissed it at a slant. Who knew?
Old?? Me?? You bet and I'm amazingly happy to still be here. I am 67 (and a half) now.
I don't know that grass. It's very pretty. Clover is one of my favorite flowers, and is a great cut flower too. I find the wild flowers attract far more pollinators than do cultivated flowers. They are smaller and less spectacular, but clearly more nutritious desired by bees and such. Gardening could be so simple if only we listened to the entities we grow, rather than trying to impose something we read in a book, or were told, on them. Do you know Ruth Stout?
I do not know Ruth Stout, but I will check her out. :)