Trigger-happy councils mowing down our spring flowers? There’s a better way to do things | Phineas Harper

The No Mow May campaign has persuaded local authorities to protect biodiversity. But bigger changes are neededThis time last year, residents of the council estate where I live in Greenwich were left in tears after local authority contractors mowed down scores of newly planted purple alliums on our shared lawn just days after they’d bloomed. In minutes, one man with a strimmer had reduced the flowers that my neighbours, many of whom do not have private gardens, had grown over months to mere