pwa wrote:Me and my better half were walking around the coastal nature reserve at Merthyr Mawr this afternoon and I have never seen so many wild flowers there. Mostly coastal or dune species. Particularly prominent were large drifts of Viper's Bugloss. When I got home I found someone has added this image to Streetview in the past few days.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4844996 ... 6?hl=en-GB
But looking closer, is this a poo bag? Why do people who take the trouble to get to such a lovely spot do that?
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4844996 ... 6?hl=en-GB
The wild flowers have gone mad with vigour this year. They're always prolific in the Welsh lanes, enjoying the steep banks which seem to also trap the heat. In Brechfa there are currently swathes of various hawkweeds and forests of foxgloves nearly as tall as the spruce! There are also many, many different grasses, all now tall and waving their various seed heads about, each with a unique shape and shade.
This afternoon the ladywife and I went for one of our now customary Welsh lane cycling jaunts, over the hilly stuff via many such lanes. Despite being close to blott-level efforts on her wheel, as she feeds her e-motor at blue level, I could still enjoy the vast banks of flowers and grasses. Ah bliss.
The chucked dog sh!**3bag. Why do people put it in a bag of slow-rot plastic then festoon the place with it? It's best, in the wild, to allow the stuff to rot down naturally to encourage those bugloss and hawkweeds, as long as it isn't lying in the middle of the path or track like a squish-mine, to plaster every crevice of one's boot.
Personally I always have the poobag but use it only in those places where the odour will be a foot hazard, health hazard or other hazard. In the depths of a forest, there are many hungry plants eager for the nourishment. Without all the moles, deer and even the odd dog fertilising the place, nowt much would grow so well. One must practice with the poo flick-stick of course.
One day I will acquire a composting toilet, which will hopefully improve the onions and cabbages of the garden. True recycling, that'll be. Out one end and eventually back in via t'other. Several times, perhaps!
Cugel