Please, let the wildflowers grow

Editor:

I am dismayed at the devastation on George Street’s east end (Concession 3 – 6/7 Sideroad Nottawasaga) coming into Creemore. It looks like a war zone!

How often I’ve travelled this road and appreciated the diversity, colour and beauty of the plants attempting to survive there, both on the north and south sides of the road.

The colours – the blue of the chicory, the yellow of the bird’s foot trefoil with other colours, white, pink and perhaps fuchsia interspersed, were pretty. This was especially so as the sun made its way west allowing its light to illuminate the display. And could someone explain that absurd meandering path of white stuff there. What is its purpose?

We are surrounded by green. I guess Kermit the frog said it best, “It’s not easy being green.”

I wonder, why can’t we just let go, and let God be God? Why can’t he plant his flowers on even the most insignificant strips of land.

Every living thing on earth has a purpose. Everything is a part of the circle of life. When we destroy on part, we affect the balance of life and we do this to the detriment of our very planet.

In the Toronto Star on Sept. 3, Mark Cullen reports that in the UK there has been a 97 per cent loss of wild flower meadows. I think the situation in Canada would be similar. Wild flowers attract pollinators, something we very much need to do. A movement in the UK is responsible for planting wildflowers on 3.5 million square metres of mostly unused public spaces, hydro corridors and I would assume country roadsides.

Mark Cullen suggests we in Canada do the same. For those in charge, please, please, please restore the George Street from Creemore to its former beauty. A town as picturesque as Creemore deserves no less. We have already compromised other accesses. It is said beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is no beauty left on George Street southeast of the village. It is ugly.

Billie Power,

Mulmur.