Our two cats, Carlotta and Cheekie, love to accompany us on our woodland walks. They truly enjoy exploring the wild scents, stalking each other and….climbing up trees.
It’s a well-known fact that cats are rather better at going up trees than coming down. Their retractable claws act like hooks in the ascent but the descents another matter. Our cats have realized that the best way to come down is often backwards.
Our meadow is stunningly full of flowers which include wild carnations and field orchids.
The long grasses are truly a pleasure-ground for our felines.
It would be a real pity to have to cut these meadows, which in the UK would even receive protected status. I wonder when I’ll have the courage to use a strimmer on them?
I just simply love these superb growing grasses wherein one can find myriads of wild flowers growing in such abundance. Carnation , pansies even wild orchids it would be wicked to cut these down. Luckily the sheep cannot munch through these marvellous multicoloured meadows. The grasses are also spectacular whispering grasses and many other types I do not know their names but as they have multi seeds they are no longer just green but changes to many varied hues of green as well as purples and reds oh so very beautiful and truly amazing! I always get told off by the locals as I let the grasses be in Mothers garden which incidentally I could not cut due to too much rain but I simply love the variety of grasses and walking through them just to remind me of the natural ways of nature viz the heavily manicured boring lawns!
I return from a hard afternoon’s strimming to find myself castigated! At the risk of receiving accusations of hypocrisy (I wrote a piece sympathetic to yours a couple of years back) I write now in defence of strimmers on three counts: 1- long grass chokes existing flowers at the root and prevents the seeds from settling on the soil 2- if the grass is allowed to run to seed your neighbours will cease to love you 3- Cinghali will ensure that there are no manicured lawns in this part of the world