1/15/2024 0 Comments Wild flower border word template![]() If seed was labelled correctly, customers would understand that theseįlowers should remain confined to private garden pots. The few and last remaining patches of wild earth, which exist at the fringes of our society, should be seen as perfectly fine, but now apparently also need this flash improvement. Here, “fake” is totally pouring, spilling and spoiling our vision of the wild, skewing reality with its pictures of “fake” frothy flower meadows. I am well used to utopian dreams and reality, but now “fake” has stretched further to invade the Gardening section and its shelves of seed. While I grapple for an item with its advertised picture perfection, be it face, body, clothes or home accessory, I know the sale pitches. When did “fake” become the dream and the selling point for everything? As with all fashions, the faces and bodies on sales displays rarely exist in the real world. I have been looking at what is for sale and the home and garden fashions of spring 2021. I have been out in search of rugs and mugs in the local retail park, and as the only stores open in my 5km, I have been there way to often over the last few weeks. Spring fever has gripped, I have just moved house, and am full of enthusiasm for my new space and the joys of spring, with that “grand stretch” in the evening. Botanist Dr Noeleen Smyth explains why the word ‘wild’ should be removed from those ubiquitous wildflower seed packets popping up in every store
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