No Mow May is round again. We’ve had a No Mow March and April in front of the cottage as we’ve been too busy. It’s great for the orchids. 
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Wonderful!!!
We don’t cut the meadow until late June and then a smaller cut in late Autumn.
Be great if I could borrow a few cows to help out…
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I’m fiercely guarding (ie not mowing) our small patch, as we now have 13 Bee Orchids about to flower this year. (1 the first year, 5 last year and now… 
wow!)
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This lotissement is also under weeds currently and because we are still drought classified, it helps to keep the ground damp. The birds are out in force eating. everything that crawls and the lizards are plentiful too. Unfortunately big raptors are down from the mountains and preying on smaller items but wonderful to see soaring in the sky
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I had planned to cut our orchard-meadow this week, but the rain might put a stop to that.
have you taken a good look to see if you’ve got any “beauties” hidden in the grass?
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Not yet. TBH I might not even get to wander round the field this trip if the weather doesn’t stop being so ‘British’.
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I have a big meadow that gets cut at the end of July by a neighbouring farmer and a much smaller area at the front of the house which doesn’t get cut until all the wild flowers have bloomed.
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That’s what I have been waiting for and I have mowed at last what grass there is in the garden and am now tackling the massive task of controlling the young upstarts of the high brambles cleared by the fencer when I bought the new forest last year.
First job is to search in the undergrowth for hidden logs, chainsawed and stacked, and hidden kindling, added to their own stacks leaving only stuff that won’t jam the rotary blade and stop the motor. Not even a quarter of the way through after several days as it is surprisingly heavy work and I have had to have several breaks on the handy chair at the top corner to admire the treetops swaying to and fro. 
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Be sensible. I was worried about “the breaks” for a moment!