"Pocket" bio-park opens on 1798 Street

The beautifully landscaped "pocket" biodiversity park on 1798 Street opened with great fanfare last Thursday. It is probably overstating it to call this a park consisting, as it does, of three separate, relatively small spaces. I prefer the title 1798 Street "Gardens" not least because this is intended as a relaxed and intimate space in which neighbours might converge, but also because of the hugely diverse range of plants and trees which have gone in here. There are fruit trees (crab apple, wild cherry, quince), fruit bushes (blackberry, blackcurrant, raspberry), exotically named plants (Cupid’s Dart, Elephant’s Ears, African Lily Blue), climbers (Boston Ivy, Honeysuckle, Climbing Rose). And that's just a sample. Given time, these "gardens" will prove to be be a magnet for birds, bees and bugs. And that, my friends, is biodiversity in action! Once the granite seating is in you will be able to lig do scíth and watch the World passing you by.