Trinity College Dublin has begun transforming its front lawns into wildflower meadows after public support for the bee-friendly project. 🐝 💐 🌱 pic.twitter.com/OFrs0xzfFj
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) July 31, 2020
Wildflower meadow?
Or pristine lawn?
The choice is not yours.
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excellent, lots of poppyseed please
What’s the Black Lives Matter angle on this one?
Am I mistaken or were they previously sort of wild flower meadows back in the day anyway?
I don’t think you know what Black Live Matter is. Wildflowers don’t murder people so they don’t give a damn.
Yay for biodiversity.
(Love the little jab at the end. Wildflowers – The New Woke Oppression? First they make us wear masks next they release all that pollen in the air! What next? Making sucking exhaust pipes illegal?)
Fair play to the Trinners! Good for the bees and also these wildflower meadows look lovely
Wildflower meadows have been scientifically proven to have benficial psychological effects on humans.
Some residents round our way planted one last year and it’s very pleasing to the soul
There’s this one sloping field above a road near us that’s a glory to behold every year.
I’ve done this in front and back garden of house in dublin but regularly get anonymous notes from some prissy local ‘advising’ me to ‘sort out’ the garden
#biodiversitybitch
I am surprised a man of your heroic, Centaur-like mien hasn’t yet inveigled said protagonist over for a roll in one’s hay, would surely naysay dissenting opinion?
priapus over centaur, but, otherwise, fair point
My dad visibly winces every time he comes for a visit because the whole community is pretty much devoted to letting things run wild as an environmental and aestheitc choice.’ Would you ever get the bloody strimmer out and do something about that grass?’
Nah I’d still go for Chiron.
Approached from one end, one perceives flowing locks, effulgence, aromal, mellifluous, euphonic
From the other…
you’re obviously smitten
Thinking of doing the same on my estate
Best whip down any and all statues just in case they once stood on a wildflower or squished a bee.
#BeeLivesMatter
Bees? Trinity used to be full of WASPs
cancel culture strikes again. #ReinstateTheLawn
#MeToo
I am OUTRAGED that someone is trying to replace this PROTECTED GRASS with WEEDS
it’s just like that one time you missed your waxing appointment
Did they beat the drum slowly did they play the fife lowly
…
Did the pipes play the flowers of the forest?
Remember Agincourt, chin up old boy.
I love wild flowers and have sown some in my back garden, and let the grass that is left grow with few cuts a year. The birds love rooting in the longer grass, and of course the bees and butterflies love the flowers.
However, one major problem for me, which will undoubtedly get worse as this kicks off, is that I have hayfever. Given the whole covid fears, facing a period with red eyes and runny nose, and regular sneezing, I likely will not be popular in shops at certain times of the year :-)
I am just wondering, though, if it is not a bit late in the year to be sowing wildflower seeds? Unless thy have seedlings and are just transplanting. I do hope that they do a range with some winter bloomers which should really brighten up the whole area.
I think you have to let the grass grow then cut it back for a few years before the wildflowers really start to take over.
The wild flowers currently are in the borders, where I removed the sod. The grass is in its own central area. It already had clover and buttercups and a few others growing, so they are established.
I have a friend who raises sheep and goats who has offered that they can come and be the ‘natural’ grass cutters. Not enough to keep one full time, but he already moves them around several houses
Comes with free natural fertiliser, too. But keep an eye on them they will eat every bloody thing they can reach.
Its too late to plant wildflowers now. They should be done in March. Its gonna be a muddy mess all winter.
Public playgrounds in DCC parks have no bins in them. The reason is apparently Health and Safe-it-tee. Apparently the bins will attract bees and all the children will die horrible deaths as a result. Presumably Trinity’s public liability insurance is up to date. Either that or DCC Parks are just lazy. Hmm
mr next door neighbour has been out of the country since Feb and is unable to return because of C19, and his garden has become and wonderful riotous mess of wildflowers and overgrown madness
the bees are loving it and I think we may have to do the same thinf next year
Will they transplant some wild hedges around the playing fields next? Should increase the garden bird life in central Dublin.
Belfield is being renamed to Beefield. (Gets yellow jacket)