No, that’s not a misprint.īecause biodiversity, like every other sort of diversity, is always better. Yes they are bright and cheerful, much-loved by locals and much-photographed by admiring visitors but it has been decreed they must go due to their lack of biodiversity. Salisbury’s achingly woke council is mounting a crusade against the terrible curse of trailing verbena and far too busy Lizzies, brightening up – oops sorry comrade, blighting – the pedestrian zones. The last time there was a major skirmish round these parts was in 552 when the Battle of Old Sarum saw the Celts roundly defeated by the Saxons.įast forward to 2023 and it’s not quite the War of the Roses (mind you, that’s only because there aren’t any) but I think we can confidently predict the current mutiny over municipal plants will go down in history as the Hanging Basket Hostilities or perhaps the Battle of the Begonias. Throw a cordon militaire round those petunias! Sandbag every marigold bed! Do we have an extraction point for the lobelias yet? Well identify one sharpish who knows when Salisbury’s leaders will mount their frontal assault on the city’s floral displays?
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