Newbury (Newtown Road Cemetery) 12th - 14th June MMXX4 CE.
On my 12th June visit to the Newtown Road Cemetery, I was encouraged to see the Newbury Town Council Grounds Contractors confining their strimming to the paths, following my recommendation of at least 15 years. However, my visit the following day revealed a far more extensive coverage of flora destruction.
The Friends of the NRC brag about the flora, which can be found on their premises, but they have condoned an area of strimming which once boasted an extensive wildflower garden of moon daisies, which are now extinct.
The War Graves seem to get preferential treatment.
The next day (14th June MMXX4 CE), John O’Connor, NTC grounds Contractors were still wholesale strimming the NRC. Where there was an acre of moon daisies, there are just a few sq m.
Newbury Town Council, their Grounds Contractor (John O’Connor) and The Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery (Necropolis), between them have nearly eviscerated all the moon daisies, together with countless other species of flora.