Sir – Driving along the Marston Ferry Road has been a real pleasure, being one of Oxford’s most attractive roads with its river and fields.
Earlier there were wild daffodils, bluebells and, a few days ago and well back from the road’s edge, a corridor of wild flowers including ox-eye daisies, greater hawksbeard, many meadow grasses all beneficial to bees and butterflies — a pageant of colour to enjoy.
This is now a distant memory, as all was mown down, in full flower at the wrong time of year, leaving a dreary wasteland.
Shame on the council wasting money when others now recognise the importance of planting meadow flowers along their roads to cut pollution and enhance the environment.
M. Graham, Oxford
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