Diamond Dogs is now a reality

Desmond1979 said:

I saw a huge field inundated with Solar Panels.

The opposite.

Saving us from dystopia. 

We've got a few round here, some people really hate them as they see it as industrialisation of a rural landscape, but they're mostly people who dont' realise that the countryside has always been industrial to a greater or lesser extent. It's not and never has been all roling countryside and a few sheep and cows on a hillside.

The ones round here often have sheep grazing around them, so the farmer gets an extra crop, electicity as well as wool and meat.

Hardly any of our countryside's is natural.

After the ice age, once the north sea filled, there were only something like 30 woody plant species.

We should be mostly broadleaf forest with stinging nettles and brambles in the south. Higher areas maybe more bracken.

Open areas are only there due to grazing, most of which was introduced or farmed.

It really brightens my day when I hear people gardening for wildlife! I want to do a deadhedge in our garden too -we do have a pile currently where there have been hedghogs before, but a deadhedge is practical and provides a home to so much life! (plus I'm hoping it would be one thing to not get eaten by the sheep on that side!) 

I bet it looks wonderful too! Thanks for sharing that!

If everybody gardened for wildlife, didn't tidy thier garden to much, left a patch of nettles, let thier lawn grow we'd have so many miles of wildlife corridors that there wouldn't be so much of a crisis.

I try and garden for wildlife, I have a dead hedge where I pile woody cuttingd, from things like budlea, roses and hazel bushes. This gives wildlife somewhere to overwinter and hide. I try and have a range of plants coming into flower most of the year so as thier year round nectar for polinators. Over the past couple of years I've really seen a massive increase in the variety of insect life and it's becoming a good eco system. Their will be some major tweeks this year, but all with beauty, practicality and wildlife in mind.

If everybody gardened for wildlife, didn't tidy thier garden to much, left a patch of nettles, let thier lawn grow we'd have so many miles of wildlife corridors that there wouldn't be so much of a crisis.

I try and garden for wildlife, I have a dead hedge where I pile woody cuttingd, from things like budlea, roses and hazel bushes. This gives wildlife somewhere to overwinter and hide. I try and have a range of plants coming into flower most of the year so as thier year round nectar for polinators. Over the past couple of years I've really seen a massive increase in the variety of insect life and it's becoming a good eco system. Their will be some major tweeks this year, but all with beauty, practicality and wildlife in mind.

It really brightens my day when I hear people gardening for wildlife! I want to do a deadhedge in our garden too -we do have a pile currently where there have been hedghogs before, but a deadhedge is practical and provides a home to so much life! (plus I'm hoping it would be one thing to not get eaten by the sheep on that side!) 

I bet it looks wonderful too! Thanks for sharing that!