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Tonight on telly at 8pm looks to be a good program 'Bees,Butterflies, Blooms. It set me thinking that a positive change of garden style (wildlife gardening) may be gaining momentum. My scant knowledge of fashions for gardens seem to point to us wanting what we dont get in the enviroment: eg
Medievil gardens were tightly controlled and manicured as opposed to the struggle in the rural landscape.
After the enclosures had hedged and fenced the farmland, Open, natural 'Landscape' gardens were all the rage.
The development of very brightly coloured bedding from the mid 19th centuary onwards provided the exotic colour that had always been lacking in the landscape.
But as today you can hardly go anywhwere without seeing bright exotic colour, manicured landscape, trimmed hedges etc. I hope that our unquashable one-up-manship in the garden will begin to centre on how many bees, birds, moths, etc. we can entice to live and breed in our gardens, rather than the outward display of 'Ideal Home' orderliness that too many gardens have.
Galatas said:Warrington's local authority have done a great job of sowing wild flowers along central reservations and on roundabouts. They look splendid in summer.
Ribble Valley Council has done the same. Our roundabouts and verges are a riot of colour from wild flowers in the summer.
Cheers, Linda.
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Linda , I remember seeing one of your roundabouts close to the BAE factory at Salmesbury. It looked lovely.
How sad is that , remembering where I've seen nice roundabouts ? Hahaha
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