Secondly, with more ground cover, including trees, precipitation is retained and filtered in the surface vegetation, just as nature intended. On lawn graves, the opposite happens and rainfall passes over the body fairly immediately, removing material and potentially carrying it to any nearby watercourse. Finally, long-term care is not a problem as the management costs are minimal with no memorial safety problem, no intensively maintained lawns and few roads or hard landscaping. The benefits of woodland cannot be overstated, particularly in the urban setting. The latest Environment Agency report on the North West, and the current government White Paper called A Better Quality of Life stress the need for more trees and native meadow.
Trees reduce pollution by locking up carbon and filtering air.
The health of our children will rely on us growing more. Long-term, of course, trees improve soils. Once you routinely mow you destroy the insects, bats, voles and owls' Finally, the article suggests that a wild flower meadow is more suitable. I agree with the principle, yet the practicalities are immense. The view that you can somehow maintain new lawns as short grass, trodden out by visitors, and see it become valuable wildflower meadow in the future simply does not work.