Noteworthy posts 2

This week’s noteworthy posts and a letter to The Guardian.

Following on from the theme of refugia for wildlife, Ryan Cronin has written a great post on making your lawn wildlife-friendly. The title, Leave the Lawn Alone! is making a certain Pink Floyd song go through my head, though. As Ryan says, why have a lawn when you could have a meadow?

I think that from a visual perspective, a meadow of mixed grasses, flowers and clover swaying gently in the breeze, festooned with golden dandelions, w...