Dwarf Ginsing

 

Yesterday Whip and I checked a low area in one of the paths.  In the spring that area is a conduit for water to get from the woods to the swamp so it is either full of running water, standing water, or mud.  Some years I can't mow through there until August.  This spring has been drier than most.  The low area currently had only crusted mud.  However the forecast for the afternoon (and for the next week) was off and on rain.  Once home from the walk I jumped on the mower for the first time this year and drove a trail out to the low spot, through the low spot, in order to mow the path beyond.  I haven't mowed anywhere else yet.  The paper had a series of letters-to-the-editor concerning No-Mow-May.  I looked it up on-line.  The idea is to let your lawn grow in May as a way to encourage small wild flowers to grow in it and help out pollinators.  The write-ups talked about making urban life more bucolic.  I'm not sure why anyone would think No-Mow-May would be a 'thing' in a rural area.  Our pollinators are feasting in the blossoms of wild plums, crabapples, apples, and now cherry trees.  As for wild flowers they are blooming now in the meadows, forests, fens, and my lawn.  Then I got to thinking about how May is the month fawns are born.  Does often hide them in hay fields.  No-Mow-May as it pertains to farmers cutting hay fields I think is an excellent idea!