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Planting sunflower seeds along dyke and wasteland?
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 11:19:33 +0000, K wrote:
lloyd writes That's what I was thinking, and of course the lovely smiley flowers. I think you have to be quite careful. The "dykes, ditches and plots of apparent wasteland" might be wildlife refuges amongst the arable land. before introducing anything, you should familiarise yourself with what is already there (plant and animal), perhaps through your local wildlife trust. Yes I shall do that. I think we have a Nature guy fairly local I saw in the shop window. I know this isn't your situation, but just as a thought: orchids seem to thrive in abandoned industrial sites, with large multi-species populations on an alkali waste dump in Lancashire and in various abandoned quarries and lime kilns in the Yorkshire Dales. One of the greatest threats to this sort of site has been well-meaning agreements in the planning permission that the site should be landscaped once the quarrying has finished. It is wonderful how apparent wastelands that look like they had been nuked can recover in such a wonderful way. If mankind was to disappear tomorrow I doubt Mother Nature would have much trouble restoring things. |
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