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Mowing the is essential to keep your grass growing and healthy. However, with the summer season, the task of maintaining your garden sometimes becomes very tedious. While many believe that frequently mowing the is a positive sign for the green area, it also means if you have a petrol mower.

However, experts have revealed that growing one type of flower will naturally help your garden to grow, and requires less mowing. The expert from the explained that growing a low-carbon wildflower meadow can play a significant part in combating climate change. "All you have to do is mow it less", the expert added.

Annual wildflower seeds can be effortlessly sown in mid-spring or early autumn. A variety of seed mixes are available, offering different combinations of wildflowers-some even include grasses to create a natural meadow-like appearance.

Sally Nex wrote in a blog for the RHS: "What's more, when you stop weekly mowing, your lawn starts on its journey to becoming natural grassland - one of the world's most efficient carbon sinks, able to lock up over 3 tonnes of carbon per hectare."

She explained that Hay meadows have become a rare sight, with around 97% vanishing in the UK since the 1930s. This decline occurred as farmers either ploughed the land for crop cultivation or enhanced it with fertilisers, leading to dense grass growth that displaced wildflowers.

1. Scalp the grass with mower blades on their lowest setting

2. Sow hemi-parasitic wildflowers onto the bare soil; once established, they weaken grasses, helping wildflowers dominate. Suitable choices include yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor) and eyebright (Euphrasia nemorosa).

3. Don't mow throughout spring and summer. Large natives such as hogweed, thistles and nettles are fantastic for wildlife, providing food and shelter, so tolerate them as far as possible but remove selectively, by hand, if they get invasive.

4. Take an annual cut in late summer and rake up the "hay" to remove and add to your compost heap. It may take some years to achieve a pleasing balance of grasses and wildflowers, but the result will be a long-lasting, well-established meadow.