Show and shame

It’s understandable, that during the recent very strong sun and heat, those parking vehicles will seek shade. However, there’s no excuse for what’s happened here.

As was very well publicised here, there was a program of planting – by unpaid volunteers – of pollinator-supporting flowering shrubs last year, and many of these have grown well, thanks to the tending, weeding, watering, and feeding by those volunteers, and by kind others.

So it’s more than disappointing, to see the lack of observation and consideration for that work on the part of some drivers, who apparently think that their desire to park in as much shade as possible trumps everything else.

Here we see that a driver has reversed beyond the surfaced area, and someway up into the shrubbery planted and maintained by unpaid volunteers, in the apparent attempt to maximise the shade for their vehicle. In so doing, flowering shrubs have been damaged, like the St. John’s wort shown here.
This is the vehicle whose driver is responsible for the damage. If you’re the driver, then please don’t do this again. If you’re not, but you know whose it is, then please mention to its owner their lack of awareness and its consequences.

A lot of unpaid work went into propagating these shrubs from cuttings, in preparing the ground for their planting, and in maintaining them since.

Please, everyone, support your fellow plot holders in such works.

PPA Website Team

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