Same here - plus, I live in olive farming country and bees are essential for pollinating the trees. One of the reasons why many farmers keep a few beehives even if they don't take the honey.
Double effect, really, some of the wildflowers really are beautiful and flower over and over with very little maintenance.
I tried to use my beds for allotment purposes last year but failed badly due to the soil and light. I'm on the waiting list now so hoping to get one by the end of the year.
The missus has her flower beds, which we weed, but the rest of the garden we try to leave alone - I only strim once each season's flowers have finished seeding. Luckily, most farmers here avoid herbicides, so the wildflowers in spring and autumn really are beautiful.
Basically you just can’t be arsed maintaining your garden and it’s full of weeds.
Weeds are just flowers growing in the wrong place
Sadly, self-interest and short term gain dominate thinking when it comes to the environment.What's the use of all that money if everything's fucking dead?
Never mind 1984, Ben Elton's Stark is more accurate with this shower.
Who who
Take your pick.
We can take the scatter gun approach. Just fire until something sticks, they're bound to be guilty of something.
She could easily deflect their attention with empty mojito cans.
