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Planting sunflower seeds along dyke and wasteland?
lloyd writes
Yes I think that's quite apparent now. Seems such a waste. However I shall try and find out who owns the land and talk to them about planting some wildlife trust approved wildflowers. The ditches are cut once a year, and the verges twice, but the ends of the ditches are left completely wild, so they may let us plant something there hopefully which would be nice. You might be interested n the work of the Plantlife charity. Their 'Back from the Brink' programme aims to bring 'back from the brink' seriously rare flowers, which they do largely by creating the conditions for the plants to regenerate from the seed bank in the soil where they used to grow. For example, they've had some success with starfruit, which relied on cattle coming to drink at the pond and churning up the mud at the edge. In some sites where Plantlife have replicated this mudchurning, they have had starfruit reappear. http://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/plant...k-from-brink.h tml Being the age I am, I can remember when road verges were routinely mown short, and it is a real pleasure to see the wildflowers returning to our verges, some of them, obviously, planted as a deliberate re-seeding of wildflowers, but some of them reappearing by themselves (for example a roadside colony of frog orchids which certainly weren't part of any planting programme) And much as I love daffodils, I do get a wee bit bored of the King Alfred types creeping along the road verges at the edges of so many villages. -- Kay |
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