In article , Stephen Howard
writes

Ahh, wait a mo.. you said 'regular cutting'. I'm guessing once every
three weeks just isn't going to cut the mustard ( or the grass, come
to think of it ).

Well, it's er, a wildlife garden innit ( guv ).

Something not often discussed in this group are the choices of herbage
in a grassed area available from judicial use of cutting height and the
frequency at which it is done. Long ago, we used to keep our main lawn
at 'croquet' standard because we had a croquet set and regular visitors
who liked to play croquet. More recently we like to encourage some
wildflowers and wildlife while still keeping a recreational lawn.

By selecting a cutting height and sticking to it, also by keeping
herbage near to that height by regular cutting, it is possible to opt
for a given range of naturally self-set wildflowers. The variety of non-
grass plants will vary according to the chosen height of cut, but it
will stay fairly constant if the height of herbage is constant.

At present I am cutting at approx. 3-4 cm. and that gives us a cheerful
and wholly self-set display of daisies, buttercups, clovers, self-heal,
celandines, mosses and others according to season and climate. Commonly
unwelcome (in lawns) plants like nettles, thistles, comfrey, cow
parsley, cow parsnip, hogweed, ground elder, brambles, horse/mare's
tail, bindweed, knot-weed et al. are not seen in our lawn, though there
are some of most of them not too far away in other even wilder areas.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.