I SEE that West Sussex has realised what a wealth of flora and fauna can survive on roadside verges. Hopefully Southampton will take a leaf out of their book.
We have acres of grass, especially in the Lordshill area, that could be left for wild flowers and hence for butterflies and bees.
Southampton City Council seems to be into the neat and tidy look whereby any wild flower that dares to show its face has to be decimated.
Instead of all the man hours taken up by constant mowing it would only have to be cut once or twice a year and monitored to keep the coarse weeds out.
MRS HARVEY, Aldermoor, Southampton.
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