Around our new shopping centre, there's a bit of a feeling coming up off the residential buildings surrounding the Great Work. Are our nettles and overgrown shrubberies still suitable now this has been plonked down next to us, like Starship Commercial City?
In the run of houses next to the new bus-stops the panicked cutting has begun:
A congested municipal shrub has been clear-cut to the ground, revealing the havoc it has wrought on the soil below. Whatever this plant was, it didn't like to share. Here are a couple of context shots to show the shape of the space:
It's not 100% dry, as the algae on the wall attests, but the corner is a touch windswept and bleak. The location is exposed to all the street has to offer, and that heavy congested trunk means that planting anything big will be a struggle. However, I'm pleased to see weeds sprouting already. A bit of Red Valreian, maybe, and the strappy leaves of municipal bulbs. That might be a bit of resprout from the shrub's roots, too. It's not dead, after all - just had its top lopped off.
This tiny unpromising corner might be earmarked for a fancy garden, but I doubt it. I'll check back in as the year advances, but I suspect it's just going to be allowed to grow back, wild as it likes - while the residents enjoy the sun the overgrown shrub was hogging.
In the run of houses next to the new bus-stops the panicked cutting has begun:
A congested municipal shrub has been clear-cut to the ground, revealing the havoc it has wrought on the soil below. Whatever this plant was, it didn't like to share. Here are a couple of context shots to show the shape of the space:
It's not 100% dry, as the algae on the wall attests, but the corner is a touch windswept and bleak. The location is exposed to all the street has to offer, and that heavy congested trunk means that planting anything big will be a struggle. However, I'm pleased to see weeds sprouting already. A bit of Red Valreian, maybe, and the strappy leaves of municipal bulbs. That might be a bit of resprout from the shrub's roots, too. It's not dead, after all - just had its top lopped off.
This tiny unpromising corner might be earmarked for a fancy garden, but I doubt it. I'll check back in as the year advances, but I suspect it's just going to be allowed to grow back, wild as it likes - while the residents enjoy the sun the overgrown shrub was hogging.
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