‘Leave it and they will come’ is a good enough adage for how wildflowers settle in to an area; carried on a walker’s boot, dropped by bird, or blown on the wind, and finding a foothold in the poorer soils, typical of wasteland, railway cutting and roadside verge. And just when the flora is as pretty as a picture along come council contractors to mow and strim it all back to a neat, bare strip. The result is a mono-specied, nutrient-enriched environment of grass or bracken with barely a dandelion in bloom and the decimation of yet another wildlife niche. Read More…»
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