http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/flora-and-fauna/save-our-plants/ A blog about woodland activities, outdoor skills and conservation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/flora-and-fauna/save-our-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-6787 Vivien Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:56:48 +0000 http://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/woodland-activities/save-our-plants/#comment-6787 I totally agree that we should promote our own native plants at every opportunity. It is such a shame that they are continually overlooked in favour of the large engineered and foreign plants that gardens and nurseries are full of. People don't like "weeds", but they are our native flowers. I live in a very rural area with lots of lanes. Up to last year, the verges were full of wild flowers, starting off with the usual cow parsley. Last year, before it had time to flower, it was cut back by the highways agency. They cut the verge four times during the year, the last time when it was very wet in November. This churned upo all the soil, making it look as if it had been plowed. This happened in all the lanes of West Sussex, and I've no doubt elsewhere as well. What a distructive activity, and what a waste of tax payers money. I totally agree that we should promote our own native plants at every opportunity. It is such a shame that they are continually overlooked in favour of the large engineered and foreign plants that gardens and nurseries are full of. People don’t like “weeds”, but they are our native flowers. I live in a very rural area with lots of lanes. Up to last year, the verges were full of wild flowers, starting off with the usual cow parsley. Last year, before it had time to flower, it was cut back by the highways agency. They cut the verge four times during the year, the last time when it was very wet in November. This churned upo all the soil, making it look as if it had been plowed. This happened in all the lanes of West Sussex, and I’ve no doubt elsewhere as well. What a distructive activity, and what a waste of tax payers money.

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