{"id":1366,"date":"2021-12-21T05:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2021-12-21T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:02:36","slug":"cultivate-biodiversity-forget-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/gardening\/biodiversity\/cultivate-biodiversity-forget-the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivate biodiversity, forget the lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without wanting to recreate wild nature, it is possible to approach it by welcoming a wide variety of flora.&nbsp;The little animals will soon follow!&nbsp;Combine plants and small animals well to welcome wildlife to the garden without being invaded: follow Rustica&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know ?&nbsp;Plants have a social life.&nbsp;Some can only thrive with company!&nbsp;The plants bring mutual benefits: shade, support, protection against the wind, pests &#8230; The more species are numerous, the more the garden becomes welcoming for the fauna, which then finds refuge and food there (and the more the fauna is diversified). , the more pest attacks are controlled).&nbsp;However, many animal and plant species are now threatened.&nbsp;To promote biodiversity in the garden, nothing better than to introduce wild plants, ideally indigenous.&nbsp;You just have to \u201cforget\u201d to remove some alliaries and chelidoins in the beds;&nbsp;compose planters filled with cereals and flowers (poppy, cornflower, etc.);&nbsp;leave a fallow land at the foot of the hedge or at the bottom of the garden;&nbsp;build a pond;&nbsp;keep a low wall, dead trees.&nbsp;Ideas abound!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ZOOM: Another lawn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spreading fertilizer, fighting against moss, passing the mower throughout the beautiful season, copious watering\u2026 So much effort, time spent and waste to obtain the green carpet of our dreams!<br>Why not reduce the surface, this will be the opportunity to introduce a&nbsp;new diversity to the garden&nbsp;.&nbsp;So welcome ground covers (creeping bugle, dead knife, nummular lysimachus &#8230;) which will spread under the trees, where the lawn is struggling to grow.&nbsp;Create a&nbsp;gravel&nbsp;garden&nbsp;on which to wander: a number of plants (wallflower, saxifrage, mullein, valerian, verbena, etc.) can be dispersed there according to their spontaneous sowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without wanting to recreate wild nature, it is possible to approach it by welcoming a wide variety of flora.&nbsp;The little animals will soon follow!&nbsp;Combine plants and small animals well to welcome wildlife to the garden without being invaded: follow Rustica&#8217;s advice. Did you know ?&nbsp;Plants have a social life.&nbsp;Some can only thrive with company!&nbsp;The plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}