Pollinator plan must thrive as weeds and wildflowers are important to bees

Nature doesn’t do tidy and a weed is just a plant in the wrong place. The words of a leading teacher on the natural world and the environment.

People take great pride in their manicured, weed-free lawns and gardens. There’s a tendency in fairly recent times to tidy up the landscape rather than allowing wildflowers, for instance, to grow along roadsides and on the edges of fields and parks.

But, as Chris Barrow, the man quoted in the introduction, stresses, space ought to be made for nature. A decline in wildflowers is leading to starvation among bees, the pollinators of many crops which provide food for humankind, he pointed out.