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Growing a lawn turned out to be dangerous for the environment

Growing a lawn is hugely popular in the West, but experts say maintaining it is costly, time-consuming and damaging to nature.

Experts stopped cutting the lawn on 50 per cent of the lawn in the backyard of King’s College London and sowed a meadow mix with wildflowers.

Experts say daisies, cornflowers and poppies later sprang up there. At first, 33 varieties of flora representatives were sown in the meadow, by the time the experiment was completed, more than 50 other species had already grown there. It turned out that 3.6 times more insects and spiders live in the flowers than in the lawn. The biological mass of invertebrates that inhabited the lawn was 25 times higher than on an ordinary lawn.

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