One of my projects this spring has been to set up a small area of ‘meadow’ in our garden – in other words, remove the mower. This is an area of about two square metres down the side of the house, where nothing grows very well and ‘no one’ (meaning my less than impressed wife) goes much.
My original plan was to leave it and see what happens – what wonderful meadow flowers would move in through the magic of nature. However my botanist friend Richard came to stay a few weeks ago and kyboshed that one. Continue reading