10-06-2020, 05:50 AM
Here in rural Lincs, there are hardly any wild flowers. A few cowslips early in the year, the odd dandelion and now a few stands of meadow sweet. We did have cow parsley and hogweed on the verges but everything must be tidy, so all verges are mown with a #1 skinhead. the local farmer is anti nature, Johnson traps to kill any corvids, Mrs Framer on her sitdown mower, mowing 4 times a week, fields a uniform bright green. There weere some mushrooms in one of his fields, he caught me picking them, next year he sprayed them. His son lives next door to me unfortunately, his new wife was busy weeding the footpath yesterday, so out with the jack by the hedge, thistles etc, in with the lupins and anials, it's specieist. Drives me nuts.
Our garden is a haven, i in turn drive the neighbors nuts, Elder trees, self grown hawthorns, hazel, big purple thistles, fireweed, a good crop of nettles at the bottom of the garden, lawn overgrown, but it is nice and green unlike other gardens whose lawns were a patchwork brown before this spell of rain. 24hr on tap birdfood, sparrow population up, jackdaws (how he's managed to survive the guns and johnson traps I've no idea), red spotted woodpecker, etc, etc.
Different approaches, but it is hard being a square peg sometimes and having spots in the garden for nature, one gets the impression from the dirty looks and muttering that I'm letting the side down, not keeping things under control and tidy. Oh well, too old and contrary to change, ce la vie.
Andy.
Our garden is a haven, i in turn drive the neighbors nuts, Elder trees, self grown hawthorns, hazel, big purple thistles, fireweed, a good crop of nettles at the bottom of the garden, lawn overgrown, but it is nice and green unlike other gardens whose lawns were a patchwork brown before this spell of rain. 24hr on tap birdfood, sparrow population up, jackdaws (how he's managed to survive the guns and johnson traps I've no idea), red spotted woodpecker, etc, etc.
Different approaches, but it is hard being a square peg sometimes and having spots in the garden for nature, one gets the impression from the dirty looks and muttering that I'm letting the side down, not keeping things under control and tidy. Oh well, too old and contrary to change, ce la vie.
Andy.
