Wild Flowers On Roundabouts !

[mikey4444]

I am seeing an awful lot of roundabouts, where the Council have sown some wild flower seeds...poppies, etc. It looks so pretty as you drive past and it must be good for wildlife.

Is this being done all around the country of just here in South Wales ?

[wolf63]

It is good for the wildlife and, you are right, it looks pretty too - and probably saves money on grass cutting etc.

[maggiebee]

We don't have wild flowers here, but in the springtime there are crocuses and daffodils which make a lovely splash of colour.
PS we don't have roundabouts in Dundee, we have circles. Think we're the only city in Scotland who call them this.

[ethandron]

Yes, I think it generally is all round the country, certainly on our travels we've noticed the same, lovely isn't it?
I'm not even sure they've deliberately sown wind flower seeds, I wonder if they've just let nature take over rather than manicuring roundabouts and motorway verges.

[Buenchico]

Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Swindon, Woking:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/news/roundabout-meadow-makeover-1.478199

Central Scotland:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/23665

Chorley:
http://chorley.gov.uk/news/Pages/Wildflowers-and-willow-figures-help-Chorley-bloom.aspx

Bolton:
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/9698267.Meadow_flowers_scheme_to_reduce_grass_cutting_bills/

Rotherham:
http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/news/article/58/river_of_colour_commemorates_first_world_war

Telford:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-28948484

Cheltenham:
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Urban-meadows-bring-colour-life-Cheltenham/story-21666548-detail/story.html

and many, many, more!

[Retrochic]

There is a bypass near me that is covered with red poppies -almost 3 miles. They burned off the grass in the early spring ( I thought it was to prevent travellers from tethering their horses) and must have sown these seeds -it looks lovely.

[kirkcudbright]

Rotherham in S Yorkshire also have their roundabouts and central reservations planted with wild flowers. Apparently the firm that planted the 'Olympic Meadow' are also responsible for Rotherham.

[stuey]

I'm immensely grateful that I don't have to circumnavigate any roundabouts, pretty looking or not. They look absolutely suicidal: I wonder if Kamikaze pilots used to practice on Japanese roundabouts:)

[Tilly2]

They are really simple to use, stuey. You just give way to the right (or the left in your case)

I really had to think about that^

[Buenchico]

Roundabouts are easy, Stuey ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RCPpdmSVg

[stuey]

Tilly, that sounds fine in theory; however the photos of some of the monstrosities that you have would make get out and walk to where I was going:) I've come across maybe three or four since I've been driving, and they're just simple lit circles in the road with 3, 4, maybe 5 roads leading off, or on, around it. Give me traffic lights or "all-way" stops anytime.

[Tilly2]

So, stuey, at the 'all stop' junction, who goes first? The one with the most guts?

[Tilly2]

Sorry, 'all way'.

[stuey]

Usually they are a four way intersection. First person there goes first, and if people get there around the same time, the person to your right has the right of way. It can get tricky sometimes; however, it's been proven that there are few accident at these that at traffic light intersections, I guess because you're more cautious about what the other drivers are going to do.

[stuey]

My typing is terrible today:)

[Tilly2]

Well, stuey, that sounds like a roundabout to me.

[stuey]

It's an intersection, Tilly; there's nothing round a bout it:) Here are some samples;https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEV7.BlrJVzhoAf4knnIlQ?p=four+way+stops&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

[stuey]

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEV7.BlrJVzhoAf4knnIlQ?p=four+way+stops&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002

[DaisyNonna]

Circles in South Africa.
One memorable, large circle surrounded by four smaller, N S E and W.
Approach and manoeuvre small one, immediately around large one, out (hopefully) on small one.
Much swearing and/or praying.

[stuey]

By the way, are your signs still marked "HALT"?

[Baldric]

You sure about that Chris?

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR2XjbbbKsERxjaRwfnMk_Sc4pVCySrYEc-_etgEUoptdgVrOVt