Rutherglen locals given gardening tips as part of ‘No Mow May’

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Rutherglen locals were given gardening tips at the Rutherglen Exchange Shopping Centre as part of ‘No Mow May’.Tracy Chambers from Healthy ‘n’ Happy was promoting their gardening club in the venue on Friday to encourage pollinators during No Mow May to thrive and enhance the local environment.No Mow May is a national campaign to encourage people not to mow their lawns until the end of May in order to boost the flowers, and nectar, available to pollinating insects such as bees, butterflies and beetles.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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We were so pleased to welcome Healthy ‘n’ Happy to the centre to talk about all things gardening and offer advice on how to get involved in the campaign.“Home Bargains gave younger shoppers a chance to scatter seed bombs throughout green space and in the autumn have some florals to help the bees, butterflies and beetles.”Alongside their No Mow May event, the centre hosted a children’s market and a Qigong (a form of meditation) class.Jane continued: “To kick off Mental Health Awareness Week, we teamed up with