Wild flowers.

Hi,

This is interesting;

Wildflower planting launched in Denby Dale with free seeds for residents

It's not far from where we live and I hope it catches on. I created our own wild flower meadow broadcasting the seeds earlier this year and whilst at their best before our bad weather attacked them they were absolutely stunning.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Not up here I'm happy to say, the meadow bits are carefully shaped and the grass is moved around the bits. I think the grass movers are quite taken in with the idea as the meadow islands with the surrounding mown lawn are impeccable. We even have small signs showing what plants are grown there and why the council is creating these wild patches instead of having a neat end to end lawn.

Whatever can be said about North Tyneside Council, they have at least got the wildlife friendly meadow planting more or less right. Well done.

 

Hi,

A few years ago Bron and I were driving through a large council estate in Sheffield on the way to Meadowhall; the estate I'll politely call "rough" a number of the council houses had been demolished and each site cleared; the council had seeded these cleared sites with wild flowers and they looked absolutely gorgeous adding a great deal of pleasure in an otherwise uninteresting place; this impressed us so much hence we now have our own small wild flower meadow.

I'm unsure if councils have adopted wild flowers in place of grass to save on grass cutting; won't these wild flowers need some tending at the end of the season?

I've also noticed where previously roadside verges used to be fully cut back some are now trimmed about a mower width from the road leaving the rest natural; I'm pleased to see this.

Kind regards, Colin.