This year’s #30dayswild challenge is almost at an end, but there’s still time for a few random acts of wildness before the month is over.
This morning we had breakfast in the garden, where I spotted this little creature, a vine weevil, bad for plants as their larvae eat the roots, but still welcome in our garden. They’re funky looking critters.
I went off to work this morning with a boot full of plants, gardening gloves, a trowel and a bucket of compost. I had a plan.
At the front of the depot where I work, the first thing you see as you drive in are planters full of sad looking weeds. Mostly thistles, the odd dandelion, some hawkbit and various grasses. Unloved, uncared for and a little depressing. I wanted that to change.
When I finished work this evening instead of heading home I put my gardening gloves on and got stuck in to a spot of guerilla gardening. I had slightly underestimated the size of the planters and quickly realised that I only had enough plants for two planters. I cleared the weeds, dug holes, added a little compost to them and planted salvia and lavender in two of the planters.
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The salvias are nearly in flower, and should attract bees and other pollinators, and provide a splash of colour on the way in. I hope other staff enjoy them too, I had some positive messages from people leaving as I got on with the gardening.
I’ll bring some more plants in soon to add more pollinator friendly colour to the other two planters and encourage more wild at work.
Great idea, well done
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Thanks, I was fed up of seeing those unloved planters, so thought I might as well improve them.
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They look great! Such a good idea 🙂
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