Cloudy, misty, 18º little wind.
No birding today as I have been assisting the local housing
association in helping older people use and understand technology, i.e.
Laptops, tablets, smart phones, email, internet etc.
I have been doing a lot of work in our communal garden on a
limited budget over the last 4 years trying to get the garden acceptable for
all who live here. My partner Loren has been helping me a lot over the last year also.
When I arrived back home this afternoon the contract gardeners had
visited for the first time this year and had strimmed an area of the garden
that I had been nursing and growing for the last 2 years to keep as a foraging
area for wildlife.
Needless to say I was furious; in fact I cannot remember the
last time I was as angry as this and my language was not for the faint of heart.
It has taken at least 2 years of letting particular wild plants grow and the
area acts as a kind of corridor for birds, small mammals and insects that visit the garden and this has
been totally ruined in around 15 minutes. AND not even a decent job done of it!
The cutting of the grass is woeful and some areas that should have been cut
have been left! WTF is going on!
What do we have to do to get quality and common sense here,
there was a makeshift barrier (due to budgetary constraints) and this was totally
ignored! There were flowers growing..............these were strimmed out of existence!
There was a large pile of twigs and branches (from the winter storms) ready to
be take away............these were completely ignored!
The previous contract gardeners were just as bad as this
time last year we had marked out, with canes, where flowers were growing in the
lawn............so what did they do...............strim the bloody
lot................... they are not with us now but this lot have so far proved
no better.
What is ironic is that I met with the local housing
association and the new gardeners at the end of last year and we discussed and
agreed on what areas I would tend and we would expect them to tend!
Communication..........is it a dirty word?
Part of the garden before.....
.JPG)
Part of the garden after.....
A Bumble Bee amongst the debris (courtesy Loren)
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