Bugweed and litter

Update: By close of business, William reported he had removed 500 bugweed from the garden. Yet, on the surface of it, it looked as if the garden was relatively clear. This means we have cleared, in seven months, 3 500 from 87 Hilton and 68 Clulee.

Secondly, I enjoyed Neville's chirp that we were lucky only to have two black bags of litter on our verge. But, again, it hardly looked as if we had any litter. But with a school operating across the road, and a construction crew just down the road, the litter was deeply entrenched.

It is my experience that bugweed is utterly pervasive, as is litter, and we tend to live around both of them.


Original post: One of our first acts on moving into No 68 Clulee was to clear the bugweed. On the surface it looked as if there was none. William, our gardener, has just finished clearing over 300. (Above is what it looks like.)


Last Sunday, 702 ran a programme on how toxic and noxious this weed is. Utterly horrible. It is literally against the law to have it on your property.

During this year alone at 87 Hilton Road we pulled out over 3 000 of these plants.

Our second act was to clear the verges of litter. Two black bags later ...