Verges are a delight
SIR, — Got a gripe on cutting verges? Your headline asked ('Herald' June 19).
Just the opposite.
I've been wanting to congratulate someone on the wonderful hedgerows and verges in Northumberland this year.
The one-metre sweet-scented lawn-like fringes, backed with the beautiful displays of wild flowers, have been a positive delight.
Dandelions, hawthorn hedges, cow parsley, buttercups, and now red campion and ox-eye daisies. William Turner would be proud.
Thank you to the decision-makers whose policies are to keep good visibility by creating lawns along the verges, and to stop using herbicides with their depressing, drooping dying plants.
BRIDGET GUBBINS
Morpeth
The full article contains 109 words and appears in Morpeth Herald newspaper.
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Last Updated:
26 June 2008 11:17 AM
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Source:
Morpeth Herald
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Location:
Morpeth
