Rather unattractively, the spoil was piled up and never collected by anyone. Two years later, and the spoil heap from the herb garden is now a thriving little mini-environment, a sort of Galapagos covered in borage, red dead nettle and a small pink flower I can't identify.
Today, various little worker bumblebees were at work on it, feeding mainly from the borage.
Of course, every silver lining has a cloud - cliche alert!!! - and this particularly grey and scurrying one is that rats seem to use it as a home slash thoroughfare and so it will almost certainly be removed.
Interesting to see how it has developed though!
Si
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That is lovely. Nature is good but not rats. Cannot stand them.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of enchanting little flowers! Without the rats, the heap would be an attractive feature for a garden.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. The strawberry ice cream metaphor is lovely. :)
Happy May Day!
Nature finds a way, eh?
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does!
ReplyDeleteThanks all! Glad that a rat heap got some attention