This is what took root in the mud patch in front on my flat on a council estate. Dandilions, bluebells, lime, daisies, serviced by a burgeoning colony of slugs, snails, beetles, and worns. It's a vision of what the city could become if we just left it alone.
Just as well I photographed it because two days later some of the kids trampled the lot down. Nevermind, it'll be back next year.
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Dear Sir,
When you say the city would "become" a colony of said plants are you really claiming that our streets, motorways and garage forecourts would be nothing other than a mass of bluebells, limes and daisies etc? We here at the Child's Hill Institute for the Study of Urban Succession (CHISUS) feel mighty aggrieved that self-elected commentators on the urban scene such as yourself should feel qualified to sound forth on the city's flora, actual or potential. You fail in the example given to acknowledge the ruderal status of daisies and dandelions, you conflate these fast-seeding colonisers with ancient woodland indicator species such as the bluebell etc. etc. Is this the standard of ecological enquiry you intend to take with you to Epping Forest in the near future? If so please stick to Strand Lane and you obsessions with manhole-covers and bombsites.
You miserable old git, at least someone still has romantisim at heart and luckily 'Turnerism' lives on in the 21st century - go on I dare you to dream!!
You miserable old git, at least someone still has romantisim at heart and luckily 'Turnerism' lives on in the 21st century - go on I dare you to dream!!
I do dream! I dream of a coherent national ecology policy stripped of defunct organicist thinking and neo-Jeffresian warbles. I dare you to take a walk in the Feltham Concentration yards. Go there and chew on some Hounds Tongue or bugloss hippy!
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