There’s some good advice here— esp in the latter half of the article— but I think it could be made clearer that solely letting a nonnative monoculture (most lawns) ‘go wild’ isn’t going to do much for native wildlife/ biodiversity. And annual seed mixes should be used with caution as they typically contain nonnative flowers, including ones that can be invasive (ie daisies).

at last the message is getting through that we need to wild our gardens.. have cut a small are in the middle of the lawn once this year and am aready getting crane flies..

this year I bought some large tortoiseshell caterpillars from Devon butterflies and released 18 into the garden..they were extinct.. fabulous deep orange colour... more people should brred butterflies for the garden.. very easy one plastic tank fungarium from Amazon and a load of caterpillars and their food stuff. usually nettles but with LT wych elm which is easily found in hedgerows. Clean the cage out daily with clean kitchen role and fressh leaves.. caterpillars turn into chrysalis in about 2 weeks..I have buddlia verbena nad nettles in the garden.