Wandsworth Council has announced it will take part in No Mow May as a measure to boost biodiversity in the borough.

A national campaign run by the charity Plantlife, No Mow May encourages people to let lawns grow long at a time of year when resulting wildflowers provide vital food for pollinators like bees and butterflies.

Enable, which manages Battersea Park and green spaces across Wandsworth, has allocated 31 sites of grass to take part, most of which will remain unmown in June.

Residents with gardens are being urged to take part in the campaign to help replenish the 97 per cent of flower rich meadows lost in Britain since the 1970s.

Judi Gasser, cabinet member for the environment, said: "We love No Mow May and I'm delighted that we're taking part again this year. It's part of a range of measures we're taking to protect and enhance our natural habitats, including creating wildflower meadows in King George's Park and a pollinator habitat in Putney Park Lane." 

The areas of grass being left to grow long in Wandsworth this May May are:

• Putney Lower Common cemetery (whole site) 
• Christchurch Gardens  
• Falcon Park 
• Battersea Park 
• Wandsworth Park 
• King George's Park
• Battersea Rise Cemetery 
• Wandsworth Common 
• Tooting Common 
• Fountain Rec 
• St Nicholas Church 
• Tibbetts Corner 
• Morden Cemetery 
• Fishponds Playing Fields 
• King Georges Park 
• Putney Vale Cemetery 
• Putney Park Lane (whole site) 
• The Pleasance (whole site) 
• Roehampton Playing Fields (3m strip around the edge) 
• Fishponds Playing Fields (2m strip around edge) 
• Fairacres verge (cut 1m from the path) 
• Putney Vale Open space (whole site) 
• Tibetts Corner (whole site) 
• Garratt Lane Old Buriel Ground (3m strip alongside the wall) 
• West Hill Open Space (all three triangles), cut 1m around paths 
• Medfield Street Open Space (whole site) 
• Sheepcote Lane (whole site) 
• Vicarage Gardens (part site) 
• Beauchamp Terrace 
• Wandsworth Park 

Learn more about No Mow May here.