Cutting grass

[Robbyrasta]

Hi, I was wondering what people would do when cutting a commercial site (solar panels) and came across all these

 

Should I just cut them, leave them, ask my employer?

These are out in the open and could easily be left, but my contract is to cut all the grass in the site.

Thanks

[Ty Korrigan]

When I come across such, I mark with a stake, take images, mow around them and inform the client afterwards.

If the client say mow next time then at least your back is covered. Mind you, in law, not all flowers are protected.

 

http://naturenet.net/blogs/2008/05/09/arent-all-orchids-protected/

 

Ty

Edited June 5, 2017 by Ty Korrigan

[peatff]

Cut the grass as per instructions. They are nothing special and there's mare's tail in there as well.

[Gary Prentice]

Would have thought the best idea was to send the pictures to your employer to ask, rather than arbtalk?

[Robbyrasta]

I am asking on here to try to get a picture of what I should be advising my employer ( maybe should say client). He's an part of an electrical firm that runs the operations and maintenance of a few solar parks.

I know they aren't protected, and I can cut, and It would be easier for me to cut them- but are they rare enough to warrant me leaving them to make the overall site a better place....

Edited June 5, 2017 by Robbyrasta

[sandspider]

I'd leave them personally, nice to see.

[Mark Bolam]

A neat strip cut round the perimeter can give the impression of neatly maintained, while still leaving plenty of bee-fodder in the middle.

 

You might be doing yourself out of a bit of work, like.

 

Nature will thank you though.

[Richard 1234]

I would go round them too maybe no one see them but the bees will like them and I don't see any harm in leaving them.

That said in one of the villages I do there is a really dull bit of a footpath that always gets cow parsley I left it first year as I thought it looked ok ( better than the scrubland behind it anyway!) Well big mistake I got moaned at and kept being reminded to take the stuff down.

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

A neat strip cut round the perimeter can give the impression of neatly maintained, while still leaving plenty of bee-fodder in the middle.

 

You might be doing yourself out of a bit of work, like.

 

Nature will thank you though.

 

Mark! Your kind sensitive nature is showing again:biggrin: