What may happen if you leave your grass uncut

This is what may happen if you leave your grass uncut from the beginning of May. Orchids popped up in the roadside verge outside two houses on our road. One of these patches has since been cut but we hope to be able to preserve these sites next summer.

These are Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii), the same species we observed on our biodiversity walk at the end of June. The appearance of these flowers is only likely to happen where the grass has not been reseeded (if it is essentially unimproved grassland).