Small spaces of green and wildflowers make such a difference to our town, it use to give the feeling of space and peace. If you had asked me even 5 years ago I could have named umpteen places like that around town. Sadly everywhere I look, there are houses being built on any half decent bit of space which was green these days. Even our very own little nature museum which was geared up for younger school children with its wildflower garden tended by volunteers has been closed to make room for flats. It may be sceptical or even bitter to say, it doesn’t seem to happen in the more affluent areas of our town!
Desperately trying to think of something positive! What is lovely though when you come into town on the main road we have the Noordzee Kanaal on the right of us with a steep grass embankment running down to it, but along the middle of the road is a grass verge, in the spring and summer this looks spectacular with all the wild flowers that grow there – it is just a mass of colour. It is so cheering to see it that time of year – now of course it’s just grass. There does seem a lot of planting on roundabouts. This isn't a patch on how green and floral our town use to be.
