Comment 24170

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted May 28, 2008 at 13:16:04

Referring to wildflowers as weeds is pretty sad. It just proves how much certain powerful people in this town hate nature. Clean, manicured (not to mention chemically treated) grass is the "natural" equivalent of concrete...but then again, what would you expect from the former general manager of Dufferin Consturction (a division of St. Lawrence Cement). These kinds of aesthetics look great in scale models, but their totally artificial nature isn't well suited to real life. Our fair town is adorned by grass (virtually always species which are not native) setbacks for all manner of structures, which serves no purpose but to consume time, chemicals and lawnmower fuel.

If people are playing, walking, picnic-ing or otherwise making use of an open greenspace, then it's great stuff. If, however, it's just unused space, why not let something prettier and more natural grow in?

Why call these plants weeds? Because they grow quickly, effortlessly, and with next to no chemical or mechanical maintenance. Sounds like a bargain to me.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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